Women Invest in Real Estate

Hey there WIIRE community! Welcome back to another episode. You’ve asked us to dig into this hot topic, and we’re delivering! This week we are talking all about how to create a win-win partnership in real estate. For this episode, we are breaking down what an equity partnership looks like and giving you the lowdown on how ours have been structured, plus detailing the benefits, disadvantages, and exactly what you need to create a successful partnership.

We’re also diving into these 4 components of a partnership:

• Experience
• Management
• Acquisition
• Funding

Our mindsets have shifted a lot over the years and two big pieces of that, aside from simply working together, have been through our WIIRE Community Facebook Group, and through hosting our retreats. Networking is such a key component to the REI business and we would love to also hear how being part of our community has impacted YOU so DM us and let us know!

Also, do you know someone who would be a great guest and think we should invite them onto the podcast? Let us know!

We’ll catch you in the next episode!

Resources:

• Check out Backflip for your REI biz
• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit (use code WIIRE for 10% off!)
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Hello everyone, welcome back to another podcast episode! We hope you are ready to hear from another incredible podcast guest because in this episode we are joined by Rana Zayed, a female investor who has an incredible story to share about leaving behind her corporate job to jump into the world of real investing and purchasing, rehabbing and opening an assisted living facility in Wichita, Kansas.

Rana got her taste for real estate investing from her dad because he was also an investor and she watched him intently as she grew up, and eventually partnered with her brother to work together on this massive undertaking. At the time her brother first approached her to partner on opening an assisted living facility, she thought it was a crazy idea but knew she wanted to try anyway, so she relocated back to their hometown of Wichita to invest in a community near and dear to their hearts. It was her first deal and probably one of the scariest things Rana has ever done, but she has never looked back.

In this episode, you’ll hear…

• The pros, cons, rewards, and stressors of the entire process
• Learning moments from this massive first project
• Actionable advice for anyone interested in opening an assisted care facility

Plus, some of our favorite moments with Rana are the tips she shares about working smarter, not harder, in the industry.

You can find Rana hanging out on Linkedin or connect with her via email.

Thanks for tuning in, friends!

Resources:

• Check out Backflip for your REI biz
• Connect with Rana on Linkedin
• Reach out to Rana via email
• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit (use code WIIRE for 10% off!)
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Hey friends, we are so happy you’ve joined us for another WIIRE podcast episode! We know how much you all love our BTS episodes so today we are talking about our very own deals and deep-diving into some of our favs.

We’re sharing not only some of our best deals but how we found and financed them and sharing actual numbers with you as well.

If you want to see more behind-the-scenes episodes, shoot us an email and let us know! We would also love it if you could leave us a review, wherever you listen to your podcasts!

Thanks for listening and we’ll see you in the next one!

Resources:

• Use Backflip for your REI biz
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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• Join our private Facebook Community
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Hey everyone! We hope you are ready for an absolutely incredible (true) story because in this episode we are joined by Chelsey Graning, a former full-time nurse turned realtor and real estate investor who just left her W2 last year and already has 38 units under her belt.

Based in Rochester, MN, Chelsey began her REI journey in 2020 and has accomplished so much in just 3 short years. With her background in nursing, she really hadn’t considered real estate investing to be something she could do. That was only for rich people, right?

Chelsey quickly discovered that wasn’t true and dove into the REI world by educating herself using one of our favorite methods, listening to podcasts! After finally deciding to make the leap and start her REI journey, she partnered with relatives and also found herself attending a WIIRE Retreat where she even helped a fellow attendee purchase a house!

In this episode, Chelsey shares all of the juicy details on her journey and lessons she learned along the way. You will not want to miss these game changers that helped her scale!

To connect with Chelsey, you can find her over on Instagram and hanging out on Facebook.

Thanks for tuning in, friends!

Resources:

• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit (use code WIIRE for 10% off!)
• Connect with Chelsey
• See what Chelsey is up to next on Instagram
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Hey everyone, welcome back to another WIIRE podcast episode! One of the questions that lands in our inbox day after day is ‘Who do I hire first, and when?’ and in this episode, we’re diving into exactly who we hired (the exact order in which we hired them) and how to start delegating tasks.

We will also be sharing our best tips on hiring the right person, as well as sharing hiring and timeline mistakes that we think will help you start off on the right track when you finally decide to outsource in your REI biz.

Episodes like these are some of our favorites because it's a question we are asked so frequently, and we love sharing tips and tricks we’ve learned along the way with each of you.

Have something you want to ask? Send us an email or DM on Instagram.

Thanks for tuning in!

Resources:

• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit (use code WIIRE for 10% off!)
• Meet Danielle, our favorite Bookkeeper & CPA! 
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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• Join our private Facebook Community
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Hello WIIRE listeners! Today’s podcast guest is a former (but still near and dear to our hearts) member of the WIIRE team, Amanda Boleyn. Amanda is an incredible businesswoman and entrepreneur who has operated multiple successful businesses and has jumped into the waters of real estate investing.

Amanda is a house hack investor who lives in Charleston, SC, and owns 11 multi-family units between the Charleston, Dubuque, and Chicago markets. Amanda is well-versed in owning properties in more expensive markets and self-manages her rentals while juggling multiple businesses.

Her real zone of genius is time management, which we touch on today, specifically for real estate investors.

We’re also talking about…

• Phantom cash flow
• The definition and operation a house hack
• Amanda’s personal REI journey that started on Friday the 13th
• Looking for the natural next step

Amanda helps female entrepreneurs and real estate investors through her coaching program, Simplify Mastermind. Inside, she teaches them how to simplify their businesses through processes and automation and how to successfully set and execute goal setting.

You can learn more about Amanda’s program, Simplify Mastermind, by visiting her website or following her on Instagram.

Thanks for tuning in, friends!

Resources:

• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit (use code WIIRE for 10% off!)
• Work with Amanda
• Connect with Amanda on Instagram
• Check out TenantCloud for your REI biz
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
• Leave us a review on Spotify
• Join our private Facebook Community
• Connect with us on Instagram

One thing we both love about real estate investing is negotiating a killer deal on an investment property, and in this WIIRE episode, we’re sharing our best tips and tricks when it comes to doing exactly that.

We are sharing some of our best secrets for negotiating price and agreement terms and spilling some secrets on how to use a purchase agreement to negotiate a better deal on a property.

We’re also answering the age-old question of whether we consider ourselves good negotiators and what best practices we keep tucked in our back pockets when making deals.

Have a suggestion for something you’d like to hear on an upcoming episode? Let us know or drop it in our Facebook group!

Until next week!

Resources:

• Check out episode 35
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Hello friends! We are really excited to welcome another past guest of our first WIIRE retreat, Rachel Borchardt. Rachel is a real estate investor located in Wisconsin who dabbles in a little bit of everything from single-family to long-term rentals to small multi-family properties to mid-term rentals. Rachel started investing in real estate in 2020 and now owns 26 doors with her husband and their business partners.

In this episode, we’re diving into…

• How she nearly doubled her portfolio with one acquisition
• Structuring partnerships
• Shiny object syndrome vs being scrappy in REI

You can find Rachel on Instagram if you want to see what she’s up to next!

Thanks for tuning in, friends!

Resources:

• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit (use code WIIRE for 10% off!)
• Connect with Rachel on Instagram
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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• Join our private Facebook Community
• Connect with us on Instagram

It’s been a while since we talked about changes in our own real estate portfolios, so in this episode, we are sharing how we sourced our most recent deals. We don’t always need to spend hours scouring the MLS or driving for dollars (as much as we do love doing just that), but sometimes, deals can come right to you, and we’re going to share with you how we do just that.

Plus, as a bonus, we are sharing some of our best actionable tips to keep the deals rolling into your inbox and giving you a peek into how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

Want more behind-the-scenes action on the podcast? Email or DM us to tell us what you’d like to see more of on the podcast!

Talk to you next time, friends!

Resources:

• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit and use the code WIIRE for 10% off your ticket!
• Grab our free Buy-Box Graphic
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We could not be more excited to introduce you to this week’s WIIRE podcast guest. Jamie Banks is the definition of a female real estate powerhouse and an absolute boss when it comes to MTR rentals and insurance claims. Jamie has built her entire business around this, starting with co-hosting, and is sharing all of the juicy details in this no-holds-barred episode.

Jamie lives in northern Virginia and invests in the Philidelphia, New Orleans, and Richmond markets. Jamie loves a good HGTV binge (who doesn’t) and first got into flipping through pure interest. She is good at following directions and just decided that this was something she was going to try.

She has been in the REI biz for less than one year, but don’t let that fool you because she has become highly regarded within the industry. Jamie owns 3 doors herself, manages 8 doors, and does tenant placement for 96 doors (yes, you read that right, 96 doors!).

In this podcast episode, we’re talking about…

• Finding arbitrage units
• Building a team
• How you can charge more for insurance claims/tenants
• Best practices for using your network to place more tenants with more contracts
• Emerging trends in the MTR space

If you’re attending our Phoenix retreat, we hope you’re pumped to meet this incredible woman!

You can find out more about what Jamie is up to and check out her business over on Instagram.

We’ll catch you in the next episode!

Resources:

• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit (use code WIIRE for 10% off!)
• Connect with Jamie
• Get the deets on Radiant Real Estate
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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Hello WIIRE listeners! Have you ever had one of those moments when you just thought,

‘I can’t do this anymore, it’s time to sell off my portfolio!’

If you answered ‘yes’, we’ve got a secret to share with you… We’ve been there, friend!

In this WIIRE podcast episode, we’re sharing our top four moments that almost made us throw in the towel. We’re sharing our personal stories involving both properties and tenants and hope this inspires you on your most challenging days to keep pushing through.

To put it in perspective, these four times are only four out of the one hundred times we’ve considered quitting the REI biz. As landlords and property owners, we do our best to go above and beyond for our tenants and we take it personally when things happen.

We are so grateful for each other and to our WIIRE community to have one another to lean on in those times. We opening up and being vulnerable with you and would love to hear your stories about the moment(s) that nearly made you throw in the towel.

The takeaway we want you to have from this podcast episode is not what made us almost quit, but what we did after we decided to keep going and the learning moments that came as a result.

Thanks for tuning in, friends! We’ll catch you in the next episode!

Resources:

• Secure your seat for the virtual meetup about raising private capital with Fractional
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Welcome back WIIRE listeners! We’re so excited to introduce you to our friend Dominique Gunderson, a full-time real estate investor who lives in Colorado Springs but invests in flips and BRRRR properties in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dominique has learned some amazing skills as an investor who works remotely, and we are so excited for her to share her expertise with you. Dominique has over 50 flips under her belt (at only 26 years old), and owns 7 long-term rental properties herself.

We are talking about…

• How and why she chose her market
• When it’s time to let contractors go
• Actionable tips for handling contractors going over budget

Dominique also shares where she finds her confidence (something we can all relate to!) and what a typical week looks like as a remote investor who flips up to 12 properties at once.

If you want to know more about Dominique and follow along with her journey, you can find her on Instagram.

Thanks for tuning in, friends!

Resources:

• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit and use the code WIIRE for 10% off your ticket!
• Connect with Dominique
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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• Join our private Facebook Community
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Have you ever gone to walk a potential rental property and thought to yourself ‘what a strange layout, where would someone even put a couch?’ or maybe you’ve pulled up to the property only to discover there is absolutely no place to park. This week on the podcast, we are covering the top 5 red flags we consider to be ‘no-nos’ when it comes to buying and operating your rental properties.

The 5 rental property no-no’s we’re deep-diving into are:

1. Busy street/poor parking situation
2. Funky property layouts
3. Allowing tenants to set the rules rather than following yours
4. Not following through with routine maintenance or tenant maintenance requests
5. Letting your tenant screening practices slide

We’re sharing some of our personal experiences with these, as well as what we’ve learned along the way.

Is there something you’ve been wanting to ask or a topic you’d like us to cover in an upcoming episode? Send us an email and let us know!

Thanks for tuning in!

Resources:

• Secure your seat for the virtual meetup about raising private capital with Fractional
• Have a suggestion or something you’d like us to cover on the podcast? Email us!
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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• Join our private Facebook Community
• Connect with us on Instagram

Hello listeners! We are so excited to introduce you to the wickedly talented, Tatianna Taylor-Tait, a real estate investor and designer in Vancouver who owns and arbitrages 5 of her own units and co-hosts 6 additional units. With an incredible eye for design, Tatianna has designed over 100 properties and is the co-founder of the Level Up Your Listing Summit.

In this episode, Tatianna shares…

• Some of her best design tips and tricks for rental spaces
• How to keep your design timeless vs trendy
• Why the property should be a reflection of who you are
• Plus, the most common design mistakes she sees in short-term rental spaces

Tatianna is a genius when it comes to the psychology behind beautiful spaces. We hope you are ready because we dive into so many key design elements for short and midterm rentals (even some to help you stay on budget!) and we’re talking all about the importance of knowing exactly who your target audience is when designing your rental space.

You can find out more about Tatianna by checking out her website or following her on Instagram!

Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit and use the code WIIRE for 10% off your ticket!

We’ll see you next week!

Resources:

• Grab your ticket to the Level Up Your Listing Summit (use code WIIRE for 10% off!)
• Work with Tatianna
• Connect with Tatianna on Instagram
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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Hey there, friends. Getting started in real estate investing is the hardest part if you haven't already figured it out. It can be super fun to think about living the REI dream, but the reality is that breaking into the industry and simply getting your feet wet can be enough to make you pause, over and over again. This episode was designed to help you make realistic and positive steps towards launching your REI biz. If you are a newbie investor - this episode will be an excellent place to start!

We’re sharing with you our best steps for getting started (as a newbie!) in the real estate investing game. Plus we’re looking back on what we wished we would have done differently when we first started out.

We hope you enjoy!

Resources:

• Grab our Free Buy Box Download
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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Hey there, friends! We hope you are ready to hear from another incredible female real estate investing powerhouse because, in this episode, we are joined by Sarah King. We first met Sarah at our Gatlinburg retreat, and we became quick friends.

In this episode, Sarah shares her expertise in raising and organizing private money, how you can get started, and tips for newer investors who are looking to scale.

Sarah is an investor in the Fort Wayne, Indiana market and started out as a Dave Ramsey follower who dug herself out of debt, then after a few bumpy years pivoted to investing in real estate and now has 16 doors that are all her own!

While navigating her way through the world of real estate investing and through the twists and turns of her personal life, Sarah has a very clear vision of where she wants to go.

She has built an empire and is now ready to build her family.

While most investors are hyped to make the leap and walk away from their w2, Sarah plans to keep hers. She truly enjoys it and can’t see herself walking away just yet.

If you want to connect with her, you can find her over on Instagram.

Until next week!

Resources:

• Connect with Sarah on Instagram
• Enroll now in CEO Bootcamp
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
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Hey there, listeners! We hope you are ready for our ultimate tech stack because in this podcast episode, we are sharing with you the tech stack that we use for WIIRE, in our personal businesses, and our best recommendations for getting started with adding these to your REI business. Let’s go!

The three tech areas we will be touching on are:

• Project management
• Property management
• Overall business organizational tools
   

A few of the tech stack tools we chat about are:

• Monday
• TenantCloud
• Innago
• Baselane
• Site Audit Pro
   

But the biggest thing we want you to take away from this episode is to just get started now, so you aren’t digging yourself out of a hole later.

If you are overwhelmed with all of the options we outlined (and the others still out there), choose one thing that you feel would make the biggest difference in implementing in your business and start there. You can also head over to our Facebook group, connect with other female REI boss babes, and get advice on what has worked for them!

Thanks for tuning in, friends. We’ll see you in the next episode!

Resources:

• Secure your seat for our 5 Systems and Processes to SCALE webinar
• Grab your spot for CEO Bootcamp
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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Hello, hello WIIRE podcast listeners! Welcome back to another episode. We are so excited for you to hear from our guest, Michaella Ramler, a real estate investor and developer in the Dallas area and one of our biggest inspirations at WIIRE for going BIG or going home, and we can’t wait for you to hear her story!

Along with her husband and another business partner, Michaella has been investing in the Dallas area for over 10 years. They first started investing in Dallas proper, and then last year during the big real estate boom, they moved into other areas of the metroplex.

Michaella was also an attendee at our Salt Lake City retreat (get your name on our waitlist to attend one in 2024!), where she shared with us her obsession for old, especially historic, buildings. This passion led her to purchase 17,000 square feet of commercial real estate in historic downtown Lancaster, TX.

When you think of old historic buildings in Texas, this gem is no exception. Think pioneer wagons and buildings raised in the 1800s because Lancaster was actually founded before Dallas!

Michaella grew up going to this downtown area herself and knew the owners were getting older and needed some modern-day marketing help. That combination, along with her love for old buildings, gave her the push to set her sights outside of Dallas proper and give something new a try.

This powerful story of taking on such a unique project is truly inspirational and we are so grateful to Michaella for joining us and sharing her vision and every step, from start to finish, with our audience.

In this episode, we’re talking…

• All things manifestation
• The difference between real estate investing and real estate developing
• What makes a successful developer
• Acquiring property + motivation to go after what you want

To see all the deets on this project, head over to Instagram and follow Michaella.

Thank you for tuning in, friends. We’ll catch you in the next episode!

Resources:

• Connect with Michaella on Instagram
• Email Michaella
• Grab your spot for CEO Bootcamp
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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• Join our private Facebook Community
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Welcome back to another episode of the WIIRE podcast! In this episode, we are detailing our personal goals, professional goals, as well as our goals for WIIRE for 2024. In the past, we both have been terrible with goal setting and in 2024 we are hoping (and planning) to turn over a new leaf and this list will hold us accountable to those goals.

As always, we encourage you to write your goals down on paper and keep them where they are readily available to see every day, so you can stay on track! We would also love for you to share your goals with us in the 2024 Goals thread in our WIIRE Community Facebook group!

Our CEO Bootcamp is now enrolling and starts on January 22! This 8-week course will teach you all of the foundations we feel you need to step into the role of CEO for your REI business. We will be teaching…

• How to systemize
• What it looks like to work ON your business as a founder
• Understanding financials and making decisions based on them
• Transforming from being in the day-to-day ops to being the visionary and CEO
• Writing SOPs, systems, and processes so you can automate and work less
• Hiring and delegating
• Getting organized
• Paying yourself

This course is a MUST if you have already purchased a few properties and are ready to go to the next level! Grab your seat before we start!

Last, our upcoming retreat sold out to our waitlist in under 12 hours, never even going live to the public! What does that mean for you? It means that if you want a spot for our next retreat, taking place in Salt Lake City in September 2024, you must be on our waitlist so secure your spot now!

Thanks for tuning in, friends!

Resources:

• Email us to vote for an international retreat location!
• Secure your seat for our 5 Systems and Processes to SCALE webinar
• Grab your spot for CEO Bootcamp
• Get on the waitlist for upcoming retreat details!
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
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• Join our private Facebook Community
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Hello friends! Welcome back to our second episode in 2024! In this episode, we are excited to welcome Malia Gudenkauf, Grace’s sister and financial educator, also known as ‘Little Miss Finance’. Malia’s platform teaches women how to live their best financially literate life, and we adore her, not only because she is Grace’s sister but also because she has a wealth of excellent knowledge she openly shares.

Malia’s journey with personal finance started in 2018 at the University of Northern Iowa, where she had a job lined up with a Fortune 500 company after graduation. One day, it dawned on her that she really didn’t know anything about money except that you should be saving some. She began taking free classes on campus and reading as many books as she could get her hands on. She was fascinated by the topic but confused as to why she wasn’t learning or discussing it in any real-world conversations. She was consumed by it and decided it was her mission, snowballing from a side hustle to posting on social media platforms to coaching other young people. She now runs it as a full-time business, loving every second of it.

We are taking it back to basics and discussing how to get your personal financial house in order before you start investing. While this step is often overlooked, it is quite critical, and we’re examining why it’s important and how to do it.

If you’re stuck feeling like,

Where do I even start when it comes to finances?

…this episode is a fantastic place to start!

We talk about…

• Building passive income streams, specifically as it relates to real estate investors
• Malia and Grace’s financial understanding when it comes to their upbringing and, looking back now, their perspective on what it looks like to be ‘wealthy’
• How their parents are a prime example of aligning spending with values

It’s so important to know your personal financial foundation before you scale, and this episode will help you do exactly that.

If you want to know more about what Malia’s up to, or get more info on working with her 1:1, you can reach out to her on Instagram or you can email her directly.

See you next week, friends!

Resources:

• Connect with Malia on Instagram
• Grab a copy of Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap
• Grab a copy of Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• Secure your seat for our 5 Systems and Processes to SCALE webinar
• Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts
• Leave us a review on Spotify
• Join our private Facebook Community
• Connect with us on Instagram