Women Invest in Real Estate

Have you ever had a tenant that you thought was just the worst tenant , ever? We’ve been there, and this week, we are sharing with you our best methods for mitigating problem tenants and the importance of training your tenants from the get-go. When you train your tenants (whether they are new or inherited with the property), you are showing them a first glance at how you run your business, and whe...

Hey friends, we are excited you’ve joined us again because this week we are deep-diving into something we BOTH have a lot of experience with: onboarding inherited tenants. We’re going to start with what exactly an inherited tenant is, pros and cons of inherited tenants, why you might want to consider placing your own tenants, and what to do when you are buying a property with inherited tenants. If...

Hello everyone, welcome back to another podcast episode! This week we are excited to welcome our friend, Kayla Pennington , an investor in the Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee, markets. Kayla also attended one of our WIIRE retreats and joined us earlier in 2024 in CEO Bootcamp . Kayla started in investing journey in 2022 and now has 6 doors after ditching her golden handcuffs with a...

Hey friends, we hope you’re ready to hear all of the deets on what’s been happening in each of our lives, our portfolios, WIIRE and find out what’s coming up next because this week we’re catching up on all of that, and more! We’re giving you the inside scoop on Grace’s trip to Europe, Amelia’s historic coffee shop progress, and even sharing some must-know info on the upcoming WIIRE Retreats that w...

Hey there WIIRE friends! This week we are welcoming our friend (who doubles as Grace’s realtor), Katelyn Nikolaev , to the podcast. Katelyn is an investor-friendly agent in the Cedar Rapids area. She has 9 units herself and has sold over 100 houses since she started her journey in real estate in February 2022. In this episode, Katelyn shares why she transitioned out of her career in law enforcemen...

We try to always be authentic and genuine on the podcast and that is exactly what you can expect if you join us on one of our upcoming retreats ! The women who attend our retreats are nothing short of inspiring and also some of the most authentic women you’ll ever meet in the REI biz. The connections formed at these retreats are genuine and made to last. This week on the podcast, we are sharing 5...

This week on the podcast, we are welcoming back Jenn and Joe Delle Fave, one of our favorite REI duos and Grace’s original Creative Finance mentors. In this episode, you’ll hear a behind-the-scenes look into their business, PLUS real-life creative finance deal examples that they have recently done and are currently in process. You won’t want to miss a second of this episode! Listen to Jenn & Joe’s...

Hey friends, we are so excited to talk to you today about ‘love letters’ in the world of real estate investing. Now you might be thinking, ‘Seriously, Amelia & Grace, love letters?’, but hear us out because this tool is something that absolutely should be in your toolkit, especially if you like scoring off-market deals (who doesn’t!), but we will be touching on writing a love letter for both on an...

Hey everyone, welcome back to another podcast episode! In this episode, we are giving you a behind-the-scenes look at our Phoenix retreat ! Tickets sold out for this retreat in under 12 hours and never even went live to the public - they sold out to our waitlist! We are sharing exactly what the itinerary looked like, how we dove into not only our investing journey and portfolios, and also how we d...

Hey WIIRE listeners, today’s episode is another segment of our mini-series, Ask A&G. We pull questions that we are asked in our DMs on Instagram and in our Facebook group and we would love to hear from you ! Some of the questions we’re answering in this episode are… Do you allow reptiles in your rental properties? Have you ever had someone inquire about doing a 6-12 month stay in an MTR rental? an...

This week, we are welcoming our friend Mike Scarpa to the podcast. He is giving the lowdown on novation agreements: what they are, when you should use them, and how to negotiate one. Mike is a creative finance wiz who has done over 100 creative deals! You might recognize Mike’s name from hearing us talk about him on Jae’s episode as her life and business partner. Find all of Jae’s episodes below:...

We talk a lot on the podcast about sourcing and executing deals but something we don’t frequently touch on is the importance of having an exit strategy for your investment properties. So today on the podcast, we are sharing our top 5 exit strategies for creative finance deals. You’ll learn how and when to use them, and how we have used them in our own portfolio as well. In case you missed them, ma...

Are you ready to have your mind blown, once again, by the incomparable Jae Morales ? Buckle up friends, because Jae is joining us for her 4th time on the podcast in this week’s episode, and this time she’s walking us through transaction coordinating for creative finance deals. You’ll learn what to look for, how to handle all of the moving parts and how handling a creative finance deal is different...

Hey friends, we’re happy to have you join us again for another episode where we’re sharing the deets on how we’ve used creative financing to purchase multi-family properties in our portfolio. We’re talking… Driving for dollars Big-purchases in small towns How you can rinse and repeat your creative finance processes   If you haven’t listened to our previous creative finance episodes, make sure you...

Hey WIIRE listeners, welcome back to another episode! Today, we are joined by our friend Zeona McIntyre, an absolute mastermind in creative financing who comes with a unique CF perspective because she has mastered using it from the sellers side of the table! Zeona has sold over 30 units creatively and is the author of the Bigger Pockets book, 30-Day Stay ! Zeona started investing in 2012 and is sh...

Hey friends, we are so excited to have you join us for what has become one of our favorite ( and one of our most requested ) topics on the podcast: creative financing! Today, however, we are going to dive deep into how you can find and negotiate creative finance deals in places you might not have even considered looking, so get ready to take some notes. If you haven’t already, we highly recommend...

We are so excited to introduce you to this week’s podcast guest and our friend, Brittney Krznaric . Brittney has done more than 100 ( yes, read that again, 100! ) deals on the acquisitions side and owns 17 doors herself. Brittney started her journey doing acquisitions for Jenn and Joe Delle Fave on their Creative Finance team. Brittney and her husband own and operate their 17 doors together in the...

One thing we talk about a lot of the podcast is scaling your real estate investing business, and how we scaled our own businesses. What we don’t talk about enough is how to keep yourself from scaling too quickly, and this episode is a deep dive into how to get organized from the start so that when you’re ready to scale, you aren’t working in and on your business, but instead are a prepared CEO run...

Hey WIIRE friends, we hope you are as excited as we are because today is our first-ever in-person interview, with Kelsey Porter . Kelsey is a friend of Amelia’s, located in Des Moines ( another IOWA girl! ), and is a realtor who grew up around new construction and investment properties and spent time watching her stepdad invest in luxury homes. While not all of those are what she spends her time d...

Curious how your property walk-throughs stack up against ours? Or are you maybe in the beginning stages of buying your first property and simply not sure exactly what you should be looking for in a property walk-through? Either way, this episode has you covered. Today we are breaking down exactly what you should be looking at and how it can help you in the long run. From multi-family to single-fam...

Feel like you’re trying to balance it all? We get it, and so does today’s guest, Kristen Witalka. Kristen is a CEO and stay-at-home mom who loves to blend the two by letting her kids share involvement in their family business. As an out-of-state investor with 10 doors (most of which are MTR properties), Kristen recently began her investing journey in 2023. Kristen was also a member of our CEO Boot...

Unless you are (very) new here, you know that we love sharing some of the best and worst mistakes we made in our own REI businesses early on to help keep you from making them as well. This episode is going to be one of those deep-dives into the list of financial things we wish we would have done sooner in our businesses, focusing on the tasks that you should be doing on a weekly, monthly, and even...

In this WIIRE episode, we are welcoming the mind behind the Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor , Chad Carson . Chad began his real estate investing journey back in 2003 in Clemson, South Carolina, and along with his business partner has grown an incredible business and impressive portfolio. He first started working on Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor , not even knowing what it would be cal...

Ready to market your REI business at low (or even no ) cost? In this episode, we are sharing exactly what free marketing options we use personally, to promote our own REI businesses that will keep you from needing to be a social media guru and help keep your business growing! Some of the methods we are covering are: Raising private money Referrals Having your own website Google for business …and m...

Welcome back, listeners! In this WIIRE episode, we are excited to introduce you to our friend, Maya Bovshow. Maya is an investor with properties in Los Angeles and Salt Lacy City, the COO of Trust Properties, USA, and the co-founder of Into The Box. She is bringing to the table her expertise on the EOS Entrepreneurial Operating System, how you can implement it in your investing business, and how i...