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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JF1848: Don’t Lose 30% Of Your Savings Overnigh...
Brian is a Chiropractor by trade, while also being an active real estate investor who helps other people safely invest in real estate. He had a client come in and tell him he just retired, put his savings in the stock market, and then it crashed. That...
26 min
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JF1847: How To Leave Your Job In 2 Years Throug...
Anna and Ken are a husband and wife team, who are both military veterans and now full time real estate investors. When they finished with the military, they held W2 jobs while also getting into real estate investing. After just two years of investing,...
19 min
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JF1846: How To Best Serve Your Real Estate Clie...
Michael has many years of experience in the real estate investing world. From working with small family brokerages and offices, commercial real estate, to opening his very own brokerage. These days, Michael is still a broker, focusing on his clients...
26 min
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JF1845: Ex NFL Player Turns To Real Estate Inve...
As the title suggests, Logan was an undrafted NFL player who worked really hard to make it to the league. Once his time in the NFL was over, he had to reinvent himself from an athlete to...what? Real estate investing was the answer for him, as it is...
28 min
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JF1844: Negotiating Labor Prices, Getting To Th...
More Best Ever Lessons coming at you today from Joe’s interviews. Today’s lessons are coming from William Robison (), DJ Scruggs (), and Jens Nielsen (). If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best...
20 min
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JF1843: How To Effectively Network At Multifami...
Theo will be sharing a few stories with us today. A couple of stories come from Joe, and you may have heard them before, if you’re a loyal Best Ever Listener. The other story is his own. These stories are all focused on networking and how to add...
18 min
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JF1842: Where Does The Majority Of Joe’s Invest...
Theo is back with some important syndication information. He will be covering where the majority of Joe’s () investor capital comes from. This information is being shared with you so that you can take the information and use it for your own...
20 min
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JF1841: From Trading Commodities To Trading Rea...
With the advancements in technology, Allan’s job as a commodity trader was shifting from the yelling and screaming on the trading floor to behind a computer screen. With many people in his position losing their jobs to technology, Allan decided to...
26 min
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JF1840: Buy & Hold, Development, & How Meetups ...
Steve is on a mission to educate and inspire 1,000,000 people with his podcast, meetup, and his own real estate investing. With over 20 units, 4 development projects, 60-70 person real estate meetup, he is on his way to that goal. We’ll hear about...
27 min
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JF1839: Emotional Intelligence, Communication S...
Travis was in direct sales and did very well for a few years. Even though the money was nice, he didn’t see himself doing if for the next ten years. We’ll hear what he learned from that sales job and how he uses those skills today as a real estate...
29 min
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JF1838: From Financial Ruins To Real Estate Suc...
H.J. has a system, or a blueprint for his real estate investing that he says works in any city. He didn’t just come across this system, it comes from years of hard work and acquiring properties all around the world. When H.J. first started with real...
25 min
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JF1837: Investment Spreadsheet Mistakes, Moneti...
Joe has another round of Best Ever Lessons to share with us today from doing the podcast interviews last week. Theo has another trivia question, be the first to answer correctly and receive a free copy of their first book. The lessons this week are...
18 min
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JF1836: Syndication Tips #3 Providing Feedback ...
Theo is reviewing an offering that someone sent us, asking for feedback. We’ll hear what he did great, and maybe what could have been better. A recurring theme in Syndication School and on this podcast in general, is learning from others, and...
26 min
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JF1835: Syndication Tips #2 Two Lessons Learned...
We’re hearing a couple of lessons from a 250 unit apartment syndication deal that an investor completed. The two lessons are, getting your property management company to put equity in the deal, and priming private money investors prior to finding a...
15 min
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JF1834: From The Corporate World To Mobile Home...
Ryan had a job in the banking world, didn’t like it, looked for a way out, found his way out with real estate investing. We’ll hear how he was able to take the leap to being a full time investor, and how he closed his first deal. We’ll also hear...
30 min
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JF1833: Cincinnati Meetup Podcast: Predicting T...
Today’s episode is the audio from our July meetup in which we had three experts on a panel to discuss how the market in Cincinnati has been in the first half of 2019. More importantly, we’ll hear what they think the real estate market will do in...
44 min
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JF1832: Step-By-Step Guide For Acquiring Proper...
Most of us know that the real estate market in New York City is both expensive and competitive. Elliot has become a specialist in his market, and he can typically find deals for himself and/or his clients. He even wrote a book on the subject that he...
15 min
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JF1831: Real Estate Rookie Buys 5 Rentals in 12...
Greg is a long time Best Ever Listener, who took the plunge into real estate in 2018. Now Greg is a guest on the same podcast he listened to to learn the ins and outs of real estate. We’ll hear how he got over the fear of making mistakes, bought...
29 min
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JF1830: Getting Money Back From Contractors, Se...
We’re going to hear Joe’s top three favorite lessons learned last week when doing the interviews for this podcast. Lessons learned are coming from Amanda Cassiday (), Peter Conti (), Andrew Keel (). If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to...
22 min
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JF1829: Syndication Tips #1 Lessons Learned fro...
Moving further away from the Syndication process, Theo is now diving into different stories from himself, Joe, and different guests on the podcast. Today, we’re hearing about a deal that taught an investor a couple of valuable lessons (creating...
19 min
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JF1828: How An Investor Raised Over $1 Million ...
Theo has walked us through the entire apartment syndication process in previous episodes. You can find all of those at . Now we will begin to discuss miscellaneous, tips and lessons that the team has learned over the years. We’ll share stories from...
21 min
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JF1827: Is Your Short Term Rental Legal Or Ille...
Erin is here today to help us understand the different laws and restrictions that some areas are placing on STR’s. Along with her team, they help investors find, buy, and run legal short term rental properties. You may be surprised by how many...
25 min
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JF1826: Saving Tax Money On Short Term Rentals ...
Taxes are a major expense for real estate investors, and Robert is here to explain some of the taxes that we may not know about, and how to save money on those taxes. In the short term rental area, there are lodging taxes. Much of the conversation...
26 min
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JF1825: Building A Short Term Rental Business W...
Michael is here today to tell us more about short term rentals. We’ll hear three different ways to make money from short term rentals. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “Here...
22 min
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JF1824: Doing 18 Deals In 18 Months with Dave D...
Many new real estate investors, and even seasoned ones, would love to do 18 deals in 18 months. We’ll hear how dave was able to do exactly that in this episode. We’ll also hear how Dave helps other investors raise capital.  If you enjoyed...
26 min