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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JF1274: Challenges That Syndicators Face When E...
Bruce started his career as a stock broker. Around 1991 the market changed some and he was not able to make a lot of money in his career anymore. After an 18 year stint in the retail industry, Bruce started educating himself in real estate. His very...
37 min
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JF1273: Deep Value Add Apartment Syndications w...
James has recently bought two apartment communities, rehabbed the units and refinanced all of the capital out of them. What’s more impressive is that he acquired these properties by texting the owners! A lot of great tips for all investors in this...
28 min
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JF1272: How To Be Proactive & Have A Vision For...
Dave is a previous guest on the show who specializes in triple net leases. Today he comes back on the show to talk about how he and his team try to predict certain things that will happen and be proactive in solving problems before they even come up....
27 min
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JF1271: Making Top End Technology Available To ...
Dana is bringing a technology solution to virtual investors. If you own property in another state, Dana and her company Hemlane have an innovative solution to management for you. She says that their company is a good solution between DIY and full...
30 min
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JF1270: How To Succeed In Apartment Syndication...
Joe and Theo are back this week to discuss rejection. We’ll hear of three different investors who were all rejected on offers but kept going and ended up finding success. This episode was also filmed on Facebook live, some listener/viewer questions...
29 min
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JF1269: Why A Retiring Cop Chooses Real Estate ...
David reached the age of 53, living in Seattle he’s technically able to retire now. When he actually looked at his situation, he realized there was no way he could actually retire. He looked at options and felt that real estate was the answer for...
34 min
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JF1268: Being Boss Through Residential Real Est...
Kathleen is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and real estate investor. We get to hear entrepreneurial tips from her as well as hear an investor story of buying residential real estate. She prefers to buy houses that are move in ready, and rent them out to...
27 min
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JF1267: How To Successfully Self-Manage As A DI...
Eric left his 6-figure IT job to pursue real estate full time a few years ago. Now he owns properties and prefers to manage them himself. Today he tells us his best ever tips for managing investment properties. If you enjoyed today’s episode...
28 min
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JF1266: Creative Financing And Live-In Flips Wi...
Josh has been investing in real estate for 5 years now and has done a good amount of deals. He’s gotten creative to purchase some of them, and has even done live-in flips with his family living in the house with him! To hear some creative strategies...
23 min
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JF1265: Generating Real Estate Leads Using Face...
Edwin grew up with his mom being a realtor in Orange County, California. He’s been around real estate for a long time, and spent 10 years in digital marketing. When the economy collapsed around 2007, he thought (correctly so) that social media was...
25 min
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JF1264: How To Make Shipping Containers Into Ho...
Stevie started by learning construction and building homes. She moved onto flipping homes, and eventually container buildings. What was supposed to be a retirement project, turned into a full blow real estate investing business. Make It Modular has...
27 min
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JF1263: Creative Financing Specialist Tells All...
Scott bought his first home when he was only 14 years old! Now he’s done over 1,500 real estate transactions and he specializes in getting creative with his deals. Scott likes to get creative when he buys as well as when he sells. To hear expert...
32 min
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JF1262: Investing and Managing In South Side Ch...
Jared started in real estate 5 years ago. Now he has over 75 rental units of his own, and manages over 100 more for his clients. Jared prefers the south side of Chicago, which he says is an often forgotten area of the city. He has a lot of wisdom to...
27 min
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JF1261: Playing Defense To Increase Your Net Wo...
Tim helps people keep as much money as possible, paying attention to what is going out, what he calls “playing defense”. He is also an investor with a pretty extensive background. We’ll not only hear an amazing real estate investing story, but...
22 min
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JF1260: BiggerPockets Analyst Tells Us His Life...
Craig tells us about his lifestyle of financially maximizing his own duplex and car. We’ll hear the pros and cons of house hacking on an extreme level. His role at BiggerPockets is to keep track of all of the finances, but he is also an investor. An...
18 min
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JF1259: Putting Together A Financial Plan As A ...
Chad is here as a financial planner to very high net worth individuals, to tell us how to plan our financial future. As real estate investors our path can be different than a W2 worker. Chad has helped a lot of investors make financial plans so have...
25 min
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JF1258:Epic Evening Ritual To Help Us Succeed A...
James is here to tell us about an evening ritual he uses and writes about in his best selling book. He is also a real estate investor and has advice for investors as well. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a...
24 min
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JF1257: How To Approach Partnerships & What To ...
Mark started investing in real estate at the age of 22. Now with over 2300 units and plenty of partnerships had, he can tell us a thing or two about good and bad partnerships. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave...
25 min
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JF1256: How to Structure an Apartment Syndicati...
Today we have a listener question on how to structure your partnership. Joe gives extensive tips and insights into real life practices that he uses in his business, as well as other methods that may be better for you. If you enjoyed today’s episode...
33 min
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JF1255: Started In The Stock Market At 7 Years ...
As the title says, Ian started investing at 7 years old in the stock market. Now He oversees Investments for the funding platform CrowdStreet. Now with over $5 billion of value in projects completed, Ian is here today to tell us some higher level...
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JF1254: From Losing Money On The First Deal To ...
JD and his wife thought the best thing to do with their first deal was new construction. They didn’t make money on that deal, actually they lost some. They sat out for a little while before getting back into real estate. Now JD has a full time job...
28 min
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JF1253: Learn How To Deal With Contractors & Sa...
Ryan is a contractor and investor who specializes in training investors how to deal with contractors. This is huge as investors, especially flippers. With proper construction knowledge you’ll be able to save money on bids, as well as keeping...
29 min
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JF1252: Leveraging A Partnership For 80+ Cash F...
Jack and Jeff are able to run a more efficient business by leveraging each others’ strengths. With over 80 properties that all cash flow really well, safe to say this has been a lucrative partnership. They’ll tell us a lot of details about their...
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JF1251: Make More Money By Connecting With Peop...
Trevor has been a business and personal coach of Joe’s for years. Today Trevor tells us his 5 step process for making a connection with a call to action at the end. As investors, we are not really in the real estate business. Rather we are in the...
29 min
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JF1250: Do You Have Proper Insurance? With Beth...
Beth has an incredible amount of knowledge in insurance and specifiically insurance for real easte investors. As the Vice President of Sales at a full service insurance agency, knowing specialty insurance programs for real estate investors is part of...
25 min