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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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
3102
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
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JF1179: How To Get Started In Real Estate Inves...
Joe and Theo base today’s Follow Along Friday on a listener question. The listener wants to get started in real estate but doesn’t know how to do that. Joe has some solutions, but ultimately it comes down to what is best for you. We’ll also get...
32 min
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JF1178: From $600k In Debt To Successful Agent ...
Clayton and his wife were in severe debt, and rather than sit around let it get worse, they took action. Fast forward to today, and they are both successful separately and together. Clayton is an agent as well as a real estate investor. If you enjoyed...
21 min
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JF1177: An Engineer Is Refining The House Flipp...
When he came to America for work, he shortly realized he was here for good. Geremy almost immediately started looking for ways out of the corporate world. He enjoys house flipping, he has flipped over 250 houses and knows where in the process each...
24 min
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JF1176: Tax Planning Strategies For Flippers, L...
Bruce has over 47 years of experience in financial services, with an emphasis on real estate. Today he’ll share case studies with us on how he has been able to save his clients a lot of tax money. We’ll hear how a client who is a flipper is able...
29 min
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JF1175: He Buys For Appreciation vs. Cash Flow ...
Tim specializes in high end SFR rentals, and contrary to popular belief, he prefers to buy his properties for the appreciation. He’ll even lose $200 to $300 per month if he believes the property will appreciate and be worth more in the long run. He...
25 min
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JF1174: Writing a Book For Your Brand And Busin...
Today’s guest has written several books. Honorée says that writing a book can separate you from the crowd, and you’ll become the go to expert in your field. She likes to help other entrepreneurs write and publish their own books. If you enjoyed...
21 min
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JF1173: Scaling Property Management To Over $3 ...
If you’re wanting to learn how to scale your business, this episode is for you. We’ll hear a lot about property management, but we’ll also hear key principles and values that have helped Kevin grow Renters Warehouse to what it is today. If you...
27 min
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JF1172: When To NOT Work With An Investor #Foll...
Joe and Theo are back with updates of their businesses and what they have learned that can help us. Recently, Joe has had some “red flags” come up with potential investors. These red flags have caused him to not work with a couple of potential...
30 min
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JF1171: Finding Leads Through Targeted Social M...
Living in South Carolina and running a residential real estate firm in Syracuse, New York, Bob has become a master of targeting different people for different reasons. We’ll hear how to create great content, and most importantly how to get relevant...
20 min
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JF1170: Multifamily Syndication 201: Finding Of...
Today we’ll learn a unique way to structure a syndication, and how to find off market apartment communities. Dylan and his team have a great system in place, (wholesaled an apartment community for $400k profit) but it didn’t come easy. They...
27 min