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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JF1906: How To Track Your Interior Renovations ...
When you’re doing a value add business plan, you’ll likely be renovating some if not all of your apartment units. If you have a 100+ unit community, that is a lot to keep track of! Lucky for you, we have a free spreadsheet for you to use, and Theo...
17 min
2102
JF1905: Everything You Need to Know About Prepa...
As if the apartment syndication process wasn’t complicated enough, now you have to worry about prepayment penalties on the financing. Theo will cover how they work, what to look out for, and when it may make sense to bite the bullet and pay the...
21 min
2103
JF1904: Residential Broker & Multifamily Invest...
Nashville has been and still is a thriving city, especially for real estate investors. Josh has a background in investment banking which serves himself and his clients well when helping them find a property. We’ll hear some Nashville market details...
19 min
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JF1903: How This Investor Scaled To 15 Units In...
For many newer investors, the goal is to create enough real estate income to have the option to leave their job if they choose. Melchor is well on his way as he has grown his portfolio from zero to 15 units in 2.5 years. Great episode for newer...
21 min
2105
JF1902: House Hack Your Way To Financial Indepe...
Craig is coming back on the show to tell us more about house hacking, which he has done three times now. He’s been able to go from a negative net worth to financial independence through this powerful wealth building strategy. Craig puts things into...
15 min
2106
JF1901: From 0 to $1.5 Billion In Assets How To...
Peter is an entrepreneur that started a real estate investing company, which now maintains $1.5 Billion in assets. We’ll hear about his story and some tactical tips and strategies he has used throughout his career to scale to the level he’s at...
24 min
2107
JF1900: Dealing With The Ups & Downs Of Real Es...
For this week’s Follow Along Friday, we have a special guest on, Trevor Mcgregor is Joe’s life and business coach, coach to other high level investors, and a high level investor himself. Trevor’s focus with himself and his clients is on our...
28 min
2108
JF1899: 3 Secrets To Attract And Keep Your Pass...
Finding investors to invest in your apartment syndication deals can often be easier than keeping those investors for future deals. In our experience, private investors are not most concerned with their ROI, it is a concern obviously, but not as high...
19 min
2109
JF1898: 3 Ways To Separate Yourself From Other ...
10 years ago, we wouldn’t have had a conversation or podcast episode about this. Apartment syndication has exploded in popularity in the last decade as people started to learn it’s a fantastic way to build wealth and do bigger deals with investors...
18 min
2110
JF1897: 16 Year Real Estate Investor Shares How...
As a 16 year real estate investor, Luis has seen and been through a lot in his journey. Since 2016, Luis as CEO of Culture Estate, has helped grow the company 3500% in just two years! Joe will ask a lot of mindset questions in this interview so we can...
24 min
2111
JF1896: How To Grow Your Property Management Co...
We have an expert in the field of property management on the show today. Since Joe and Ashcroft us third party management, we don’t get into the details of property management as a business and how to scale it. Jason is here to help us and anyone...
26 min
2112
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
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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
2114
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
2115
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
2116
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
2117
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
2118
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
2119
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
2120
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
2121
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
2122
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
2123
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
2124
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
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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