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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JF1380: Providing The Service He Wishes He Had ...
Alex was a real estate investor who “took his lumps in 2008”. He realized that he was not getting the level of service he wished he had been getting from his realtor partners. Now, as an agent, Alex is able to provide a high level of service for...
27 min
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JF1379: Intercontinental Real Estate Investing:...
Lauren and her husband are living in China and investing in real estate here in the States. We get an inside look at what (very) remote investing looks like, from the team members, to the properties, and the logistics of investing across the world....
22 min
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JF1378: Fire Yourself From The Smaller Tasks So...
Mark had worked his way to a $6 million portfolio, before losing some cash flow and properties because he was too busy taking care of everything. Once he realized that he needed to replace himself on those tasks, Mark got back on track and even grew...
25 min
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JF1377: 3 Ways To Rapidly Grow Your Real Estate...
Matthew has helped countless companies go from struggling to thriving. Today he tells us different methods and strategies for growing any business. Of course for our show, we’re focused on real estate investing businesses mostly. If you enjoyed...
26 min
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JF1376: When Deals Don’t Go As Planned, Try To ...
On Ivan’s third apartment acquisition, everything went wrong and “almost ruined” Ivan. To start with, Ivan paid too much for this 30 unit re-development deal. The deal was very distressed, and in a less than ideal location, but Ivan had faith in...
20 min
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JF1375: A Syndicator Just Found an Apartment De...
Time for part three of the Best Ever Series on what to do after finding a deal as an apartment syndicator. Today’s episode is focused on how to secure commitments from your investors. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes...
36 min
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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...
21 min
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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...
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