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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JF1204: How To Operate Properties More Efficien...
Jason helps investors free up some cash flow but minimizing energy bills. He’ll look at everything within the building, and how the building is utilizing its current utilities. From small commercial properties to large industrial projects, Jason...
30 min
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JF1203: Richard Schulman Runs The #2 Keller Wil...
Richard tells us how he has been able to climb the ranks to becoming the leader of the #2 team in Keller Williams worldwide. Richard is also an active investor as well as helping a lot of other investors find and buy cash flowing properties  If...
30 min
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JF1202: How A Direct Mail Specialists Says RE I...
Craig started his direct marketing business when he needed a way to market his fake rocks. He did well there, and sold the business to go work for a large operation and learned more about direct marketing. Now he has his own company again, and he...
21 min
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JF1201: Turn Key Real Estate Investing In Detro...
Al runs a business that finds cash flowing properties for other investors in Detroit. He’ll tell us that most of the negativity associated with Detroit is exaggerated media driven information. About 90% of the clients that come to Detroit to see...
24 min
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JF1200: 4 Money-Raising Lessons from $265 Milli...
In this episode of Follow-Along Friday, Joe breaks down his investor database and the four ways apartment syndicators can raise money in ANY market. Joe also explains the lessons he learned from the gratitude seminar he attend this past weekend and...
37 min
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JF1199: Creating Success From The Start by Util...
Joseph is an active duty service member, and active investor. He found someone who was having success house flipping, and use him a as a mentor to help him get his feet off the ground. Now Joseph is on his own and still doing a great job with his...
27 min
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JF1198: Tax Lien & Tax Deed Investing Nationwid...
Ted lost everything early on in his real estate investing career. After that he wanted to find a way to continue investing in real estate, but minimize the risk. That’s when he discovered tax lien and tax deed investing. Now he still invests, but he...
25 min
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JF1197: 90% Of Her Business Comes Through Refer...
In just two years, Trish has sold over $10,000,000 in real estate volume. Her biggest source of referrals is Facebook. She posts at least every other day, and never in a “infomercial” type of way. Rather she posts normal things like what she is...
23 min
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JF1196: From The NFL To The Cannabis Space - Ha...
Marvin had an 11 year NFL career, 7.8 years longer than the average NFL career (3.2 years). Now a successful businessman in the cannabis space, Marvin says that his work ethic and self reflection is what separates himself from the average NFL career...
27 min
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JF1195: How To Effectively And Efficiently Bran...
Amber was a civil engineer, and didn’t like it. She started her first business shortly after she quit that job. What followed was a dark time as her first business went bankrupt. Amber turned that around in four short years with two very large...
19 min
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JF1194: CPA Quits His Job To Be A Real Estate I...
Brian was seeing his clients make all this money with great tax benefits through real estate. He started taking action, eventually leaving his CPA job to be a full time investor. Now Brian has a portfolio of single family homes as well as small and...
29 min
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JF1193: Pros And Cons Of Active Vs. Passive Inv...
Today Joe will dive into the differences between being an active investor vs. being a passive investor. Joe is mostly referring to being an apartment syndicator vs. passively investing in an apartment syndication, but they’ll also touch on other...
32 min
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JF1192: How A NASCAR Champion Stays One Step Ah...
On the track, Kurt is a champion, he’s always calculating many different variables and factors to beat his competitors. Off the track, he applies the same mindset and work ethic. Kurt gives us a very specific example of a small variable on the race...
32 min
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JF1191: This Is How A Financial Planner Invests...
As a full time financial planner, Brent had a good W2 income to show the banks. With financing easily attainable, he bought 8 houses in his first year! He’ll give us great tips on how to use our savings/retirement accounts to buy real estate. If you...
23 min
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JF1190: Protect Yourself By Not Piercing Your C...
Patrick specializes in real estate taxes and tax planning/advice. He’ll give us multiple strategies that we can use to grow our wealth as real estate investors, and pay minimal taxes LEGALLY. We’ll learn a good amount about what the corporate veil...
20 min
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JF1189: Starting Small Leads To Quick Success &...
Dan is a real estate broker, developer, and author who got started by selling other condos in the building he was living in. According to him, that was a key part to his success, by starting small and building a reputation, he was able to leverage and...
23 min
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JF1188: Taking A More Human Approach To Sales #...
Michael has a different way for us to be able to attract sales leads. He never asks for referrals, but he generates over 500 referrals per year. Michael attracts his referrals through love, generosity, and appreciation. He actually wrote the outline...
29 min
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JF1187: Using An Algorithm To Help Diversify Yo...
AlphaFlow has a new way of doing things vs. your typical crowd funding platform. If you’ve been involved in crowdfunding before, you can relate with having to try to log in and invest in the newest or best loans before other investors beat you to...
23 min
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JF1186: How To Talk To Private Money Investors ...
Today’s topic is based mostly around a listener question, that Joe will answer. The whole idea is to continue the conversation after meeting someone for the first time. Rather than having an “elevator pitch” Joe will take an authentic “want to...
29 min
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JF1185: Trading Long Term Tenants For Short Ter...
Sue has created a system for landlords to be able to easily switch from having tenants to having Airbnb guests. Many investors are having great success by renting with Airbnb, often times seeing 2-3 times the income they normally see by being a...
27 min
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JF1184: The Science And Psychology Of Connectin...
As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Shuster deals with patients that have a variety of mental health issues. Even still, his focus when working with them, is helping them to the best of his ability. He tells us that by adopting that mindset, and putting...
27 min
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JF1183: How Relationships Are The Driving Force...
Rather than have 400 owners and 800 franchises, Ben envisions having 40 owners and 800 franchises. He says that relationships are the key to any business, and the better your relationships are, the better you will do. Crunch fitness has a strong...
35 min
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JF1182: Answering Your Clients Questions Before...
Nancy started a brokerage at a very strange time, in 2008 right before the market shifted. Luckily for her and her team, she had a great niche and system already in place, which made it easy to expand to a new niche when the shift occurred. Nancy says...
24 min
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JF1181: How To Build Great Relationships #Skill...
Clients will come to Jason to make themselves better leaders, coaches, or whatever it is they feel they are “stuck” in. Jason says that the root of the actual problem oftentimes stems from experience when the client was younger. Most of the work...
28 min
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JF1180: Having A “Revolving Door Policy” And Se...
In another life, Len was responsible for a $16 billion trading portfolio on Wall St. When he realized that he was not fulfilled, he moved his family to Florida with no real plan. Fast forward to today, and Len is the owner of multiple successful...
23 min