Danielle Pierce is an engaging, enthusiastic speaker with a passion and extensive knowledge for all things real estate and entrepreneurship. She tailors her approach so it is unique to each audience. So, whether you are looking to book a speaker for a professional women’s conference, youth entrepreneur group, disadvantaged youth organization or general networking event, Danielle is sure to bring insightful and thoughtful commentary.

Danielle Pierce wants people to know they can create the life they truly desire. Pierce, who turned 40 on Nov. 13, specializes in buying tax lien properties and managing foreclosed properties. This year, she’s starting a business – Serenity Acquisitions – that will buy debt at a steep discount and then sell it to entities.

“People don’t have to be stuck doing things they actually don’t want to do,” Pierce said. “You don’t have to complain every single day doing things you don’t want to do. You can create the life you want.”

In 2007, Pierce’s entire department at a Downtown Chicago corporate office lost their jobs, and since then she has been living the entrepreneurial life. Five years ago, she started a business that focused on managing bank owned properties. She also created a separate business that acquires tax delinquent properties for pennies on the dollar. In both instances, she is nearly always the only African-American woman operating a successful multiple six-figure business.

Pierce has marketed her expertise through her companies to the masses through online courses, the latest of which helps individuals buy tax delinquent properties and/or manage foreclosed properties. Pierce, who grew up poor and was the first in her family to attend and graduate from college, made $750,000 in 2019 and expects to hit the $1 million mark this year.

In the last two years alone, Pierce and her clients have purchased nearly 100 tax lien properties primarily in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Tennessee.
“I’m a resilient person,” said Pierce, who grew up in south suburban Chicago Heights and for the last three years has lived in Fort Worth, Texas. “And I always hated being broke.”

Pierce is the only one of her four siblings to attend college. Her brothers have been in and out of prison. Her father was a drug addict and alcoholic. Pierce’s mother had dreams of college and entrepreneurship, but life as a single mom prevented her from realizing those dreams until she was in her 50s. Her mother ultimately realized a lifelong dream of graduating from college when she was 53 years old.