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.
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2001
JF1895: What Are The New Rules Of Real Estate I...
Nick grew up in the real estate world, but never really had much of an interest in it until reading Cash Flow Quadrant. Robert Kiyosaki is probably personally responsible for thousands of real estate investors finding their way into the business,...
24 min
2002
JF1894: World Traveler, Entrepreneur, & Real Es...
Elena owns property in many different countries and is involved in even more deals. She answers a few questions that someone who is thinking about investing would ask, like what’s the most investor friendly country to invest in? Which country is...
24 min
2003
JF1893: Office & Retail Real Estate Investing 1...
Catherine was learning the real estate investing world from a very young age. As she said, when most kids were having playdates, she was with her mom at work underwriting deals. She invests mostly in office and retail space now and that is where the...
18 min
2004
JF1892: She Sold An Apartment Complex To Purcha...
We don’t get to hear about hotel investors much on this show. Today that’s changing with Nichole talking to us about her investing story, which includes pivoting from multifamily and into hotel investing. This wasn’t intentional, but the returns...
31 min
2005
JF1891: How To Wholesale 70+ Deals In One Month...
Jamil and his company have a tremendous operation, and have their eyes set on more. Already completing 70+ deals per month, they want to keep it going until they are the largest volume wholesaler in the country. Jamil will share how he built the...
24 min
2006
JF1890: From Military Life To Civilian Work & R...
Eric is a veteran who is now living the civilian life, and read Rich Dad Poor Dad years ago. Like many real estate investors, reading Rich Dad Poor Dad sparked a fire for real estate investing. He started with the seminars that other investors have...
22 min
2007
JF1889: Investing In & Managing over $2 Billion...
Alexander is joining us today to share his background, how he got into real estate investing and built a large company focused on investing and managing real estate. We’ll hear a couple of case studies from some of his deals, how he found...
32 min
2008
JF1888: Lifelong Entrepreneur Builds Real Estat...
Dan had a few different business ventures before getting into real estate investing. He’s built a pretty good size business and portfolio. We’ll hear how he got into real estate, and a few different deal specifics. If you enjoyed today’s episode...
30 min
2009
JF1887: From 10 Single Family Homes To 1600+ Ap...
Anthony got his start like many real estate investors, by doing a few smaller deals first. Once he had a taste of investing in apartments, he never looked back. We’ll hear how he scaled his business and also hear some specifics on a couple of his...
29 min
2010
JF1886: From Skyscrapers To Retail & Multifamil...
Donato worked for a company building skyscrapers in NYC, one of those projects sold apartments in the building for $90 million. Once he had an education base Donato wanted to do his own thing, and branched out to create his own company. We’ll hear...
20 min
2011
JF1885: 5 Steps To Raise Over $40,000,000 For A...
Joe was once starting from no money raised just like every other investor gets into raising money. After a lot of deals, he was at a point where he had raised $40 Million (over two years ago) and wrote about it for others to learn from. Today, Theo is...
17 min
2012
JF1884: When To NOT Work With A Passive Investo...
Obviously we talk and write a lot about finding private investors, but we don’t talk so much about when you shouldn’t work with them. Priority number one is having an alignment of interests with your investors, and ideally they treat you as a...
17 min
2013
JF1883: She Retired From Her Full Time Job Just...
Anna has done what many newer investors set out to do: retire from their full time job and live on their real estate investing business. We’ll hear about her investing strategy and what she has done to scale to a point that allowed her to retire...
28 min
2014
JF1882: How To Grow Your Investor Base & Keep T...
Ryan has been on the show in the past (previous episode linked below) he brought great value to the show by discussing his investor relations. Today we’ll stay on the subject, but now discussing how he’s been growing his investor base, while still...
23 min
2015
JF1881: Learning From Our Real Estate Investing...
Kent is back on the show to talk to us about his latest project as well as mistakes he has made throughout his career. He’s working on making home selling and buying more accessible to everyday people and investors looking for discounted property....
22 min
2016
JF1880: Lifetime Entrepreneur & Real Estate Inv...
Gary had multiple businesses before getting into real estate investing. Once he started with real estate investing he knew that he wanted to syndicate apartment communities and found a way to start doing that. Now, 1500 units later he’s on the show...
18 min
2017
JF1879: Best Ever Lessons Learned Last Week #Fo...
Today Theo will be doing Follow Along Friday with , who is also an apartment syndicator controlling over $225 million in apartment communities. Theo will be mentioning three lessons he learned last week while performing the interviews for the podcast...
25 min
2018
JF1878: How To Communicate With Investors When ...
Floods, fires, crime, wind damage, etc… They all happen, how you communicate with you investors about their investment is crucial. Communication on current deals will likely sway your investors on whether they will invest with you again or not....
15 min
2019
JF1877: The Four Prong Test To Legally Raise Ca...
As a syndicator, you raise capital, we know that. Raising money from private investors is a heavily regulated industry by the SEC. You may be surprised to know that a lot of investors are not following the guidelines properly and are at risk of being...
12 min
2020
JF1876: Creating A Diversified Portfolio Across...
Matt was a Facebook employee before getting into real estate investing. Now Matt is doing deals across multiple markets and asset classes. One deal we will hear about is an office to multifamily conversion, which is not something we hear a lot about....
24 min
2021
JF1875: Real Estate Titan Educates Us On Develo...
Erez is on the show today to tell us his real estate investing story, which has included a few different roles and strategies. These days Erez focuses on development deals so we’ll take a dive into his role with those deals. If you enjoyed today’s...
25 min
2022
JF1874: Veteran Real Estate Investor Shares Sto...
Cory is with us today to share his story of scaling his business. He started in the same position as many new investors, from bird dogging to wholesaling and then on from there, Cory has faced a lot of the same problems other have faced or will face...
27 min
2023
JF1873: Working Through A Sticky Real Estate In...
Colin and Theo will work through a situation that Colin is currently going through right now. A 16 portfolio of 16 homes is giving Colin a tough time and he’s currently trying to refinance as this project has cost him too much money and time. If you...
21 min
2024
JF1872: Our First Ever Quarterly Team Meeting #...
We had our first quarterly team meeting earlier this week. Many of us real estate investors have teams that are spread out across the country, our team included. Joe finds it important to get everyone together to discuss the company and where we are...
17 min
2025
JF1871: How To Send Your Direct Mailer To The O...
Many times when you are trying to get in touch with the owner of an apartment community, you’ll find that the asset is held in an LLC. Unlike sending mailers to single family homes where there is one non entity owner, you’ll have to dig a little...
13 min