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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JF1573: Getting Great Online Reviews For Your R...
Brian is a true entrepreneur, has started and ran numerous businesses, all on the backs of good reviews. He’s had over 10,000 great reviews over his career that has helped his businesses grow. Today he’s here to share how we an get a lot of great...
16 min
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JF1572: From Selling Cars To 86 Units Before Th...
Tyler always knew he was an entrepreneur, wasn’t interested in college, so he took a car salesman job. As he was doing well there, he still wasn’t doing something to utilize his entrepreneurial skills. Enter real estate. He took a REI course and...
28 min
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JF1571: Pay Less Taxes & Perform Proper Cost Se...
For those that don’t know, cost segregation is a way of deferring taxes, usually reserved for larger, multi-million dollar properties. However, Alan and his firm perform the studies on smaller properties - even single family homes, if it makes sense...
23 min
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JF1570: How To Raise Capital From Private Inves...
Yesterday Theo gave us six ways to find passive investors for our apartment syndication deals. Today we’ll hear six ore ways to find our limited partners. If you’ve been following along with this series, you know how important raising money is for...
30 min
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JF1569: How To Raise Capital From Private Inves...
Now we know why people will invest with us, and which entity to use for the capital raise. Now it’s time we talk about finding the actual people and investors that will be investing with you. Theo gives us six great ways to do it today. And we’ll...
30 min
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JF1568: From Early Retirement To Helping Others...
Michael had early success with real estate, retired at 45, and then grew bored. He was sitting around and had to figure out what to do now. He’s using his time to help other people do the same as him and obtain financial independence so they can...
27 min
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JF1567: Increase Net Worth & Have Your Money Wo...
We all want to increase our net worth (usually). Mark is a financial planner and here to talk to us about how he has been able to increase clients net worth by over $500,000,000. One great way he does this is through real estate, and pairs it with...
28 min
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JF1566: Banker Leaves Job To Help Investors Sav...
Harsh jumped industries from banking to energy and hasn’t looked back. He specializes in helping entrepreneurs save money on their energy bills. As real estate investors, we’re constantly bombarded with bills, especially energy bills. Hear how...
16 min
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JF1565: How To Execute On A RV Park In The Midd...
Scott is back on the show for a special segment today. We’re going to be talking about a deal he has going on. He found an RV park in the middle of nowhere, bought it, and is now telling us his business plan for the park. If you ever buy an odd...
26 min
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JF1564: How to Fund The Earnest Deposit In A Ho...
Joe and Theo are back to discuss the apartment syndication lessons they learned over the past week. Theo provides an update on two Tampa apartment deals he is analyzing, which includes a tip for how to find new team members when looking into a new...
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JF1563: How To Raise Capital From Private Inves...
Since we’re on the raising money topic, what better time to discuss 506b vs. 506c? How do you figure out which to use? Is one better than the other? What are the differences between the two? All this and more is covered in this episode. If you...
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JF1562: How To Raise Capital From Private Inves...
Were back with more syndication school episodes. Today we’re going to start talking about raising the money from private investors. You’ll need to get verbal commitments from investors so that you’ll know how much you can raise and what kind of...
32 min
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JF1561: Full Service Brokerage Teaches New Inve...
Neal is a Best Ever listener and now a first time guest on the show. His approach to real estate was to become a Realtor to help pay for his PhD, and now he owns a full service firm specializing in investment properties. A lot of his clients come to...
28 min
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JF1560: County Engineer Matches Year Salary In ...
As a full time engineer for the county, Colin had a decent income, but did not enjoy his job. He enjoyed real estate and got his real estate license, after two years of being an agent, Colin was making as much as his engineer salary in just six...
26 min
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JF1559: Being Over-Prepared For Investor Conver...
Nathan has been on before a couple times, but he brings so much value we had him on again! If you’re waiting to raise money from investors, you’ll want to hear what Nathan has to share with you in this episode. If you enjoyed today’s episode...
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JF1558: Championship Level Rehabs For Better Re...
Today Joe is talking with Michael about his keys to successful renovations on single family homes. With over $100,000,000 in successful transactions, it is safe to say he has plenty of experience and knowledge to share. If you’re renovating...
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JF1557: How to Tour An Apartment Community With...
Joe and Theo are back for another round of business updates in today's Follow-Along Friday. Theo outlines the process he followed when touring an apartment without your property management company and what you need to send your management company in...
25 min
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JF1556: How to Build Your All-Star Apartment Sy...
The Process for Hiring Attorneys, Mortgage Broker, and an Accountant Three huge parts of your team are discussed today. When, why, and how to hire great attorney’s, mortgage broker and an accountant. If you haven't listened to the first parts...
30 min
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JF1555: How to Build Your All-Star Apartment Sy...
Today Theo will cover another important part of your apartment syndication team, finding and hiring real estate brokers. This will most likely be your best source for deals so getting in with a good broker is HUGE for you syndication business. If you...
35 min
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JF1554: Division 1 Baseball Player Hits A Real ...
After college, Paul thought that selling pizza and beer at a restaurant he opened was the answer to financial success. While that may work for some people, after 10 years, Paul was about $140k in debt. He always had an interest in real estate so he...
20 min
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JF1553: Cleared For Takeoff: Professional Pilot...
As a professional pilot and 16 years of real estate investing, Bill was doing really well. He took it a step further recently by syndicating a 216 unit apartment community! Joe and Bill will focus mostly on that deal, how it happened, what the...
25 min
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JF1552: Think Like A Programmer For A More Effi...
Tim and his company specialize in creating great apps for companies. He’s also made a connection for us as real estate investors, how thinking like a programmer can help us a scale a business faster. He can even build an app to help us with that! If...
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JF1551: Follow His Strategy To The Rich Dad Hal...
Stefan was “sick and tired of being poor” when he came across Rich Dad Poor Dad. He sold all of his rock band equipment and jumped all in with real estate investing. After a few years, he was elected into the Rich Dad Hall of Fame! Hear his...
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JF1550: Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book Q&...
In this episode of Follow-Along Friday, Joe and Theo answer a list of 6 questions submitted by readers of the Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book. The questions answered are: 1) Do I need to visit every property from the 200-property analysis? 2) If...
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JF1549: How to Build Your All-Star Apartment Sy...
Today Theo is covering how to find a great property management company. This is a huge part of your business, to be a successful syndicator you’ll need a great property management company that you can count on to do outstanding work without you...
30 min