The Best Ever CRE Show

Welcome to the Best Ever CRE Show, the world’s longest-running daily COMMERCIAL real estate podcast. Founded by Joe Fairless, a co-founder of Ashcroft Capital who went from buying $35,000 homes to controlling more than $2.7 billion in real estate assets, the Best Ever CRE Show provides commercial real estate expert insights, education, and timely information to our community of active and passive investors who want to build wealth, build a legacy, and do more good in the world.

So if you want the real stories behind the good, the bad, and the worst ever deals — plus, insights into what really goes on in commercial real estate investing — you’re in the right place. Our hosts interview commercial real estate experts every day to uncover secrets and strategies YOU can use to become a better, more informed investor. This is the Best Ever CRE show.


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JF1374: From Engineer To Gas Station Entreprene...
Kay Kay came to the U.S. to pursue the American Dream and work full time as an engineer for Microsoft. Unfortunately, he lost his job, fortunately he found a great business in the gas station niche. Kay Kay grew that portfolio to 15 gas stations...
23 min
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JF1373: Friends Team Up For Real Estate Deals &...
Liz Faircloth and Andresa Guidelli share a mission. They want to help women invest in real estate and live the lives they should be living. Their podcast was created in that light, as well as a mastermind meeting. Today we’ll hear a lot about how to...
23 min
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JF1372: How The BiggerPockets President Divides...
As the BiggerPockets president, Scott is a very busy man. Add his own real estate investing to that and he is working like a mad man! Having the advantage of one of, if not the greatest real estate investing education website, Scoot has been able to...
24 min
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JF1371: She’s #1 In The Brokerage & Doubling He...
Kellie has partnered with her mom, Linda, and together they are the #1 agent in their brokerage. Over 112 transactions last year, and on track for 250 transactions this year. Along with the sales volume and realtor income, they also own 58 units that...
21 min
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JF1370: Building Your Business via FB Groups #S...
Arne is an entrepreneur that helps other entrepreneurs grow their business with Facebook groups. He helps with branding and helping you get your message out there. Arne will explain why groups have an advantage over a lot of other platforms and...
17 min
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JF1369: 5 Reasons To Outsource Accounting #Situ...
Brent sees a lot of small to medium businesses who almost ignore their books and taxes until the end of the year. If you’re not paying attention to the numbers, you can’t be maximizing your profits. By outsourcing this work to a part time...
16 min
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JF1368: A Syndicator Just Found an Apartment De...
The guys are back with part two of what to do after you find a syndication deal. Today’s episode follows them discussing the period. Today we’ll hear all about how to finance these deals, including which loan products to use and how to find a...
26 min
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JF1367: Hustle Leads To Dream Job As An Afforda...
Evan was in the medical field in college before realizing that was not for him. He noticed a student housing development being built close to his school and wanted in. He blew up the development company until they gave him a task, get 100 students to...
27 min
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JF1366: 10 Months, 6 Houses, $240k Cash, Frugal...
Rich is in the military, currently stationed in South Korea. He has always been a big Dave Ramsey fan so his approach to real estate investing is a little less typical. Rich likes to buy his properties all cash, he has no debt to his name. This is a...
26 min
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JF1365: Cubicle Mates Turned Investing Partners...
Jack and Josh worked together at their W2 job, sitting across the cubicle from each other every day and scheming of a way to break out. One day Josh’s whole team was laid off, he took advantage of that and started building a portfolio after emptying...
29 min
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JF1364: From Quizno’s To Real Estate Developmen...
Against the advice of his parents, Todd started branching out from his Quizno’s franchise. He bought his first property at an auction and thought he might lose his shirt. That first property ended up being extremely profitable, but he still was not...
31 min
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JF1363: How To Create Passive/ Residual Income ...
Matt has shared his lessons learned quite a bit already through his own podcast, Epic Real Estate Investing. Today he joins Joe on the Best Ever Show and explains how anyone can create residual income through real estate investing. If you enjoyed...
23 min
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JF1362: Make $500K In One Year With The BRRRR M...
Adam bought and renovated two 4 unit properties in 2017. His efforts with the rehab and raised rents brought the value of each property up tremendously, he made half a million dollars with those properties. We dive into the details of those two...
25 min
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JF1361: A Syndicator Just Found an Apartment De...
As a syndicator and passive investor, it is important to know what to do once you find a deal. Today Joe and Theo explain the first parts of the due diligence process with apartment communities. For passive investors, you’ll want to know what your...
31 min
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JF1360: Tools For Making A Landlord’s Life Easi...
Jason has built multiple companies, most of which were started out a need he had. The focus of this interview is on his company, and our sponsor, Rentler. Rentler allows landlords to perform most or all of the duties you need to do on a daily basis....
24 min
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JF1359: When No One Else Will Lend To You, This...
Michael and his team deal with large development projects and large apartment community owners. Michael, through the company Equicap, specializes in getting creative and financing tough situations that most other lenders will not touch. They also lend...
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JF1358: Relationship Based Lending For Long Ter...
Ramon got his start in real estate when he left the corporate world to be an entrepreneur. A large part of his success he can attribute to being able to identify what he is good at and sticking to where he is wanted. After multifamily investing in...
23 min
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JF1357: Identify An Emerging Part Of A Down Mar...
Brent is an investor in Detroit, MI. That’s right, Brent invests in, makes money, and helps other investors make money in Detroit. The trick is finding emerging neighborhoods before they become “hip”. We may focus the conversation on Detroit...
25 min
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JF1356: Being A Better Leader In Your Business ...
Nathan is on track to more than double his business this year and can track that growth down to a couple of big things. The first being knowing where the problems are, and addressing them with his team. In order to do that, a lot of smaller steps are...
18 min
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JF1355: Network Marketing Leads To Buying Multi...
Anthony read Rich Dad, Poor Dad while in a network marketing company and was hooked on real estate. After more research, he knew he wanted to acquire multifamily properties. In order to learn the business he became an apartment broker and is now...
25 min
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JF1354: 5 Ways to Show Alignment of Interests w...
For syndicators and passive investors, today’s episode is packed full content for you! A lot of this episode also applies to other real estate investors, because all of us need to build and maintain credibility. Being able to show alignment of...
26 min
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JF1353: How To Win Over An Apartment Broker (Fr...
Thomas has been a commercial broker who specializes in multifamily for years now. One of the first things we dive into is how a newbie investor can win over an apartment broker. From offering to pay for your broker’s time to knowing the market like...
27 min
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JF1352: Breaking Ground On Your First Developme...
Kenny has an extensive real estate background, and is just now starting to get into development, working on his first build now. Joe and Kenny discuss the politics, funding, and logistics of going from talking about a development to actually doing it....
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JF1351: From Bartender To Millionaire Real Esta...
Melanie was lucky enough to have parents who taught her about money, and how to save it. By the time she was 22 she had a “nice nest egg”. Looking for guidance with what to do with her cash, her dad suggested investing in real estate. Starting...
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JF1350: Getting Busted By The Cops Couldn’t Kee...
Jason was putting up bandit sign in 2009 when a police officer took them all down  and tracked them down. Jason did give up briefly at that time, but came back better because of that happening. Now Jason is a full time wholesaler with a ton of...
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