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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2001
JF2152: Hoping From Market to Market With Adiel...
Adiel grew up in a family who was involved in real estate and was privileged to dinner conversations where he learned valuable principles. He shares how he went from starting in silicon valley and switching to different markets like Las Vegas,...
28 min
2002
JF2151: Construction Owner and Investor Point O...
Jorge Abreu decided to leave real estate because he was not passionate about working in the corp world. He ended up developing a construction company called JNT Construction and now is the CEO of Elevate, a commercial investment group. He is now a...
22 min
2003
JF2150: Using The Radio To Close Deals With Chr...
Chris is the co-founder of COSA Investments, a wholesale company in Dallas, TX. He has 15 years of real estate experience and has closed over 2,500 deals using the radio. He shares his very own process he utilizes when creating radio ads for his...
22 min
2004
JF2149: Mistakenly Making It With Cameron Lam
Cameron is a full-time business analyst for McKesson and a part-time real estate investor. He started investing in 2017 by house hacking his first property and now has 12 properties under his name. He shares how when he first started looking to invest...
24 min
2005
JF2148: Self Storage Classified As A National P...
Scott is the founder of CODA Management Group with experience in architectural design and development. Scott shares his journey in real estate and the reasons he determined to shift towards self-storage and now he owns a self-storage space that is now...
27 min
2006
JF2147: Ideas Into Software With Dan Moore #Ski...
Dan is the Co-Founder of Vaporware, he helps entrepreneurs take their software ideas to market in four main industries; healthcare, human resources, real estate, and tech. Dan will give you some good ideas on how to approach creating new software. Dan...
14 min
2007
JF2146: Lessons From A Buyout With Garrett Lynch
Garrett started wholesaling deals in the Chicago area and after realizing it wasn’t a sustainable model that he could grow into a business. He eventually had a business partner and acquired 3,400 units and due to some fallout between the two, he was...
27 min
2008
JF2145: Property Management Focus With Peter Tv...
Peter is the Founder and CEO of Tverdov Housing, a management company in Central New Jersey. Peter goes into how he got started into real estate management and he gives some tips that may help you manage your own properties.    Peter Tverdov...
19 min
2009
JF2144: Read 52 Books In A Year | Syndication S...
Does reading 52 books a year sound daunting to you? Yeah I thought so, well today Theo Hicks will be going over a popular blog post that Travis Watts from Ashcroft Capital recently published on the importance and techniques to reading 52 books in a...
19 min
2010
JF2143: COVID-19 June Rent Collections | Syndic...
Theo shares the rent collection data for June 2020. During COVID-19 the rent payments were actually the highest it has been since COVID-19 started. He shares some thoughts for you to think about to be better prepared for July rent collections. for...
16 min
2011
JF2142: Improving Tenant Renewal Ideas With Bri...
Brian started investing before the 2008 crash and at the age of 24 had acquired 13 rental properties and ended up losing quite a bit during the real estate crash of 2008. He goes into how he was able to purchase 13 properties at such a young age and...
28 min
2012
JF2141: Short Term Rental App With Jon Crosby
Jon is the CEO and Founder of Click2Flip, a mobile app to instantly analyze rentals and short term rentals. Jon loves to create streamlined processes that help make his short term rentals pretty much self-automated. He shares all of the automation he...
20 min
2013
JF2140: Unique Ways to Increase NOI with Shoppi...
Alan went from owning apartment buildings and hundreds of homes to now focusing on shopping centers. He decided to sell his portfolio of apartments and single-family homes because of all the work and challenges to scalability. Now he is able to scale...
27 min
2014
JF2139: Lessons From Owning Dozens Of Companies...
Bart has 14 years of real estate experience and currently runs a merger and acquisition firm called Stone Peak Alliance. Bart has founded and has been able to grow about 30 companies and he explains how it isn’t really that hard to do. Bart’s...
30 min
2015
JF2138: Building A Legacy With Terry Moore
Terry Moore is the Co-owner of ACI Apartment Consultants Inc. and is the author of “Building Legacy Wealth” from San Diego California. Terry shares his beliefs and thoughts on how to build your legacy. He works with many investors in helping them...
20 min
2016
JF2137: The Two Types of General Partner Catch ...
In today's Syndication School episode, Theo Hicks will be teaching you the two different types of General Partner Catch Ups.  for more info on groundbreaker.co  To listen to other Syndication School series about the “How To’s” of...
20 min
2017
JF2136: Syndication With Family Offices | Syndi...
Theo Hicks will be sharing with you other ideas to help raise money from institutions and more specifically family offices. Typically you will raise money through family, closest friends, and outside investors, but through the time you will need to...
19 min
2018
JF2135: Architects Point Of View In Investing W...
Joe is an Architect and real estate investor for over 40+ years. He has some unique perspectives on how you should go about planning your real estate goals, how to raise capital and a couple of thoughts on what you shouldn’t do with your seed...
22 min
2019
JF2134: Focusing on Processes With Matt Larson
Matt has 14 years of real estate investing experience and is the Owner of Real Estate Matt Education and Easy Street Property Investments. Matt shares some of the reasons why he has been able to double his business year by year for almost a decade....
20 min
2020
JF2133: Anti-Financial Plan With Chris Miles #S...
Chris is the founder of Money Ripples, also the host of the Chris Miles Money Show, and has been featured on CNN Money and US News. He has had experience coaching people in the stock market, owning rental properties, and financial advising. At age 28...
28 min
2021
JF2132: 100 Years Of Experience With Dean Marchi
Dean is our sweepstakes winner! If you were not aware, we did a sweepstake for the first time ever for a lucky listener to enter for a chance to be on the show with Theo Hicks and ask questions or discuss their story. Dean was randomly picked and is...
22 min
2022
JF2131: Going From Singles To A 20 Unit With Na...
Nate is the Co-founder of School Dispatch and has been investing for 4 years with a portfolio consisting of 28 units in 3 states. Nate’s goal is to have 100 doors in 10 years before taking money from his properties. So far during his progress, he...
26 min
2023
JF2130: 6 Tips For Hiring A Syndicator Mentor |...
Many people preach, find a mentor to show you the way into real estate so you can shorten your learning curve however, how do you know who you should really choose as a mentor? In this episode, Theo goes over 6 tips to help you in hiring an apartment...
21 min
2024
JF2129: The 5 Year Multifamily Demand | Syndica...
Are you wondering what the multifamily market will do in the next 5 years? Theo shares some of the research he has found in regards to the multifamily market and what we should expect to see for the future of real estate investing for the next 5...
17 min
2025
JF2128: Investing As A Insurance Agent With Sta...
Stacee is an insurance agent who bought her first rental in 1996 and slowly started to buy rentals and sell them. She has bought and sold 10 rentals and currently has 3 active properties that she rents out and 1 AirBnB. While living in California, she...
25 min