It all started with a DM on Insta.
Here we are, a few years down the line: a community of badass women, 60+ properties generating over millions each year, and a life of freedom.
My name is Grace and I am the 26 year old cofounder of WIIRE.
When I first discovered the power of REI, I felt really lonely and had no one in my real life who understood me. In January of 2021 I decided I wanted to start an online meetup to create the community I couldn’t find. Inspiration, motivation and friendships with like-minded women were all things that I wanted to facilitate in this community.
After going under contract with my first property I was shocked to find another millennial from Iowa (Hi, Amelia!) talking about real estate investing on Insta. So of course, I had to become her friend! I sent her a cold DM introducing myself and asked if she would be the first guest speaker at my not-yet-created WIIRE meetup.
Thirty-five women showed up to the virtual meetup from all over the US.
I was SHOCKED!
I remember telling myself that if 5 people showed up I would be happy. It went amazingly and I decided to ask Amelia, “Do you want to, like, make this a thing with me?!”
Since that first meetup Amelia and I have hosted a monthly WIIRE meetup every month. We have evolved and increased our community to thousands of investors, added in courses, a podcast, retreats all over the US, a blog, and much more.
Today, WIIRE is a community for women pursuing financial and time freedom through real estate investing and entrepreneurship.
meet the team
Hey there, I'm Amelia, Co-Founder of WIIRE.
I'm a 32-year old investor in Des Moines, Iowa.
My investing journey started in 2019 when I partnered with my parents to flip a single-family house in my small hometown. The project took 9 months of working nights and weekends BUT we both walked away with around $20k in profit.
After that, I was hooked. I kept imagining what an additional $20k each year could do to accelerate my debt payoff and financial independence journey. I knew I wanted to quit my full-time job working for “the man” as soon as possible and realized that real estate investing was my ticket out.
Over the course of the next year, I used the profit I’d made in the initial flip to put down payments on a few small multifamily properties in my hometown. At this point I have 41 doors across the state of Iowa which are a mixture of LTR, MTR and one STR.
I am an Enneagram 7 and have lots of hobbies! In my spare time I enjoy hiking, biking, golfing, playing pickleball, reading and going on adventures! I also love a good craft beer.
It’s Grace again, Co-Founder of WIIRE.
As far as my investing business goes, my partner and I purchased our first property in February of 2021. It was a single-family BRRRR. We DIY’ed the entire gut rehab! 6 months later we walked away with a perfect BRRRR plus about $8k in our pockets.
This opened our eyes to the power of value-add real estate investing and I left my mechanical engineering job at a Fortune 500 company in July of 2021. This was a huge decision and it was definitely scary, but I believed in myself and knew that the upside was too great not to act on.
Since then we have scaled to 25+ rental units using BRRRR, MTR, LTR, creative financing and private money. Basically, I’ve done a bit of everything! I’ve also built a small team consisting of 2 full-time employees and am excited to dive into development projects.
In my personal life, I am an avid reader, and I enjoy hiking, climbing and biking. I have traveled to over 15 countries, and hope to have a home in South America someday.
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