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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JF3175: One Powerful Lending Solution Most Inve...
Senate Eskridge is a professional multifamily investor and syndicator and real estate investing coach. His portfolio consists of nearly 1,800 doors of value-add multifamily properties across Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas. In this episode, Senate...
22 min
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JF3174: The #1 Question to Ask Your Property Ma...
In this episode, Slocomb discusses the most important question you should be covering with your property managers or property management company on a regular basis. He also shares the key data points to touch on in these conversations to establish...
14 min
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JF3173: 4 Steps to Get Into Apartment Syndicati...
Brent Barcus is a Partner at i65Capital Investments, where he partners with highly vetted multifamily operators, focusing on capital raising and sourcing deals. He is also an audio producer and sound designer. In this episode, Brent discusses how he...
18 min
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JF3172: Making Mistakes with Your Own Money ft....
Chad Schieler is founder and principal of Focused Capital, which acquires value-add real multifamily estate assets in markets with strong fundamentals. In this episode, Chad shares his real estate investing journey, which only just started in 2020,...
36 min
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JF3171: Multifamily Syndications and the BRRRR ...
Passive Investor Tips is a weekly series hosted by full-time passive investor and Best Ever Show host, Travis Watts. In each bite-sized episode, Travis breaks down passive investor topics, simplifying the philosophy and mindset while providing...
10 min
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JF3170: How to Become the Bank and Self-Finance...
Mark Willis is a certified financial planner with Lake Growth Financial Services, which works with individuals, couples, and business owners who want to grow their wealth in a safe and predictable manner and create tax-free income for life. In this...
39 min
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JF3169: Two Strategies to Get Started in Ground...
Kyle McGee is the president of Sunchase Construction. His portfolio includes 22 apartment units, 9,000 square feet of office and warehouse space, 35 infill lots, and 5 development parcels. In this episode, Kyle discusses his company’s focus on...
23 min
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JF3168: Everything You Need to Know About Token...
Kyle Stevie is the co-founder of Sparen Capital, author of Digital Melting: Making Illiquid Real Estate Assets Liquid Through Tokenization, and senior logistics account executive at Total Quality Logistics, one of the largest freight brokerage firms...
36 min
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JF3167: How Lucrative is Lending? ft. Tim Herriage
Tim Herriage is executive director at RCN Capital, a leading nationwide lender for real estate investments. In this episode, Tim discusses how to improve your chances of getting capital, how to be profitable in the lending business, and how to build a...
35 min
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JF3166: How to Prove Yourself as a New Syndicat...
Caleb Johnson is the founder of Red Sea Capital Group where he focuses on broker relationships and asset management for commercial real estate syndications. In this episode, Caleb discusses the advantages to investing in smaller to midsize multifamily...
31 min
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JF3165: Why a Recession Could Be Good for Inves...
J Scott is co-owner of Bar Down Investments, which offers passive investment opportunities to individuals and companies looking to build wealth and diversify their retirement strategy. In this episode, J discusses why the commercial real estate...
42 min
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JF3164: 3 Health Hacks to Improve Your Overall ...
Passive Investor Tips is a weekly series hosted by full-time passive investor and Best Ever Show host, Travis Watts. In each bite-sized episode, Travis breaks down passive investor topics, simplifying the philosophy and mindset while providing...
10 min
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JF3163: How to Create a Fund of Funds ft. Elija...
Elijah Brown is co-founder and managing partner of GoldHawk Capital, which operates a fund of funds structure where they pool capital to invest in sponsors. In this episode, Elijah discusses what a fund of funds is, what skills are needed to be a...
28 min
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JF3162: BEC Exclusive: Fireside Chat ft. Joe Fa...
At this year's Best Ever Conference in March, Matt Faircloth and Andrew Cushman sat down with Joe Fairless to discuss his path from real estate newbie to $2.7B AUM. In Part II of this two-part conversation, Joe shares tips on raising capital in an...
22 min
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JF3161: BEC Exclusive: Fireside Chat ft. Joe Fa...
At this year's Best Ever Conference in March, Matt Faircloth and Andrew Cushman sat down with Joe Fairless to discuss his path from real estate newbie to $2.7B AUM. In Part I of this two-part conversation, Joe details his early challenges as an...
31 min
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JF3160: Secrets to Improve Your Real Estate Ope...
Jered Sturm is the co-founder and CEO of SNS Capital Group, a private equity investment firm with a focus on acquiring and operating large apartment communities in Cincinnati, Ohio. On this episode, Jered Sturm talks about how he focuses on improving...
34 min
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JF3159: From Furloughed to GP in 18 Months ft. ...
K. Trevor Thompson is VP of Investor Engagement at Massive Capital, which helps passive investors build wealth by acquiring ownership of income-producing real estate properties across multiple markets. In this episode, he discusses his transition from...
34 min
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JF3158: The Biggest Advantage to In-House Prope...
Stas Grinberg is the co-founder and managing principal of Vision & Beyond Capital Investments, which pursues off-market value-add multifamily transactions. In this episode, Stas discusses the advantages to bringing property management and construction...
35 min
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JF3157: How to Avoid the Top 3 Investment Hurdl...
Passive Investor Tips is a weekly series hosted by full-time passive investor and Best Ever Show host, Travis Watts. In each bite-sized episode, Travis breaks down passive investor topics, simplifying the philosophy and mindset while providing...
11 min
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JF3156: Pros and Cons of Institutional Real Est...
Deborah Smith is the co-founder and CEO of The CenterCap Group, a boutique investment bank providing strategic advisory, capital-raising, and consulting-related services to private and public sector companies and fund managers across the real estate...
28 min
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JF3155: Why This Broker Loves Investing in Smal...
Lee Ripma is a broker and founder of VestMap.com, which helps investors analyze neighborhoods and demographics surrounding potential properties. In this episode, Lee discusses why she is focused on small multifamily investments, specifically...
22 min
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JF3154: How to Transition from Multifamily to C...
Dave Codrea is a partner at Greenleaf Capital Partners, a full-service, integrated real estate company that buys, rehabilitate, and manages long-term low-income residential properties and small business commercial properties. In this episode, Dave...
31 min
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JF3153: 3 Biggest Mistakes You Can Make Investi...
Ben Reinberg is the CEO of Alliance Consolidated Group, whose portfolio includes over $500 million in medical, retail, industrial, and office properties. In this episode, Ben discusses the ins and outs of investing in medical and veterinary...
23 min
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JF3152: 3 Benefits of Tokenizing Real Estate ft...
Joshua Kagan is the CEO of Bonfire, which enables investors to own partial interests in commercial real estate like hotels, apartments, and industrial buildings without a down payment. In this episode, Joshua discusses how tokenization is aiming to...
24 min
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JF3151: 3 Ways to Make a Profit with Hard Money...
Ryan Wright is the CEO of The Investor’s Edge, which walks brand new real estate investors through their first flip and helps experienced real estate pros find the right team to help them expand their ability to flip more properties each year. In...
25 min