Advocacy

• Collaborated as a team of ten women from across Canada to write a best selling book
• Completely furnished a home for a family in need
• Launched a foundation to give back to the community
• Launched a ‘Benefit Corporation’ to offer a transition house to men with addiction issues
• Participated regularly in the Urban Development Institute, the Greater Victoria Housing Society, regional chambers and other local and national housing advocacy associations
• Ran for political office as an MLA
• Expanded our Cohousing network of experts and organizations working to solve Canada's housing shortage and persuading CMHC to recognize more formally these critical housing options
• Celebrated a member elected to the board of the Greater Victoria Housing Society
• Advocated to all levels of government in Ontario promoting laws that support housing diversity
• Designed Start Here with Real Estate, a self-directed foundational course on real estate investing

Events

• Hosted 36 Happy Hours and 80 virtual events across Canada
• Expanded programming by launching the popular Turbo Tuesdays, tailored for eastern time zones
• Hosted hundreds of conversations, workshops, and educational sessions on topics including legal partnership structures, legacy planning, affordable housing advocacy, investing in self storage units and in international properties
• Launched the Money & Mindset course to support financial goal setting
• Hosted workshops on international property investing
• Tested a new mobile app that will help Coliving property owners to efficiently manage their properties and tenants
  Laid the groundwork with the city of Grand Forks to develop multi-family accessible projects
• Welcomed new members, new sponsors, new affiliates and new friends!

Collaborative Property Investments

• Supported members who made their first Real Estate investments
• Partnered to buy 145 acres of subdividable land in Sooke
• Launched a coliving space in a heritage property in downtown Toronto, offering housing to marginalized people, travellers, remote workers, and students
• Launched our first Cohousing BFF Mansion
• Purchased a 36,000 sqft lot in Campbell River and successfully re-zoned to higher density multi-family
• Invested passively in storage units, US syndications, and into private equities
• Completed renovations, flipped homes, and partnered with general contractors
• Bought new primary residences and leveraged capital out of ‘old’ ones
• Bought a bank foreclosure mobile home to flip
• Developed advanced knowledge of municipal process by working on a land assembly for a future large development project
• Achieved a running total of $250 million in combined member and affiliate Real Estate transactions
• Laid the groundwork for investing in Motels/RV parks in BC's remarkable Kootenays region
• Made in-roads in the US “Build-to-Rent Single-Family-Rentals" in Tucson, Arizona with a new 71 unit, detached purpose built rental community
• Renovated a Victoria character conversion which is now a highly successful, cash flowing short-term rental
• Explored a range of purpose-built rentals projects to align with CMHC's new initiatives including in Edmonton and Victoria
• Partnered with US capital-raising professionals and closed on projects valued at close to $100 Million
• Advanced plans for creating a tiny home village
• Invested over $2 million in private money in each other
• Dispatched investment reconnaissance teams to Europe, the Philippines, the US, and Mexico

Completed & Fully Subscribed Projects