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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JF1706: Transitioning From 100% Passive Real Es...
Today we’ll hear a case study from our guest Lennon, about how and why he started as a passive investor, and transitioned into active investing. Lennon actually started out with the intention to be active, but used the passive route to learn the...
23 min
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JF1705: Making The BRRRR Method Simple & Easy T...
David is now co-host of the BiggerPockets podcast, and author of a book focused on teaching the BRRRR method. He has a lot of experience as an investor, agent, and educator, now he’s finding new ways to share his knowledge with his book. We’ll...
24 min
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JF1704: Learning From Others’ Experiences & Imp...
If you’ve listened to any Follow Along Friday episodes with Joe and Theo lately, you know the format. Joe and Theo will share what they learned last week from interviewing other investors for the podcast and explain how that can relate to us. Today,...
25 min
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JF1703: How To Underwrite A Value-add Apartment...
More underwriting talk today with Theo. We all know it’s important for apartment syndication. Even if you know what you’re doing, it never hurts to hear how others underwrite, you might learn something new. Today Theo will comer how to run a good...
25 min
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JF1702: How To Underwrite A Value-add Apartment...
Syndication school is back! We’re just going to jump right back into it today. Theo will pick back up where he left off with underwriting. Specifically, today he’ll be talking about how to determine your asking price. If you enjoyed today’s...
25 min
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JF1701: We Sold Another Deal! Lessons Learned F...
Frank has been on before, both to share his Best Ever Advice, and also to discuss another deal that Ashcroft (Joe and Frank's apartment syndication company) took full cycle. We’ll hear why they bought the property at a time most investors were not...
17 min
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JF1700: NFL Tight End Double Dips In Real Estat...
Hakeem is a tight end for the New York Giants (as of the recording) and a real estate investor. He shares how he became interested in real estate investing, and we also hear some deal specifics. Hakeem explains how he put together his first sample...
23 min
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JF1699: Leveraging Interview Content To Build Y...
Brendan has worked with celebrities and personalities, helping build their brand for years. Today, he is sharing some of his best strategies with us. It’s no secret that we’ll need to have a large reach as investors to keep deals and capital...
22 min
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JF1698: Need Help Managing Leads? Listen To Thi...
Leads - they can make or break your business. Not so much the leads themselves, but how you follow up with those leads. Dan is an expert in that area, and that is what he does with his business. He now helps investors get leads, and follow up with...
21 min
2310
JF1697: Rounding Up The Best Things Learned Fro...
Joe and Theo are back at it with Follow Along Friday, telling us the best things they learned in the previous week. Joe interviews a group of real estate investors every week for the podcast, today he tells us about the best things he learned from...
21 min
2311
JF1696: How Can You Work On Your Business Rathe...
Terry helps business owners quit being an employee in their businesses, and start getting to work as actual business owners. He also has experience in real estate investing, everything he shares with us today, relates to real estate investors. As real...
26 min
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JF1695: Can’t Find A Job? Start Your Own Busine...
Sabine was out of law school and struggling to find a decent job. Rather than settle for something less, she started her own firm. FRANCO LAW FIRM, P.C. is her firm and they focus on real estate law and business law. Needless to say, Joe and Sabine...
19 min
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JF1694: How This Broker Started & Grew A Broker...
Lee has built his own brokerage in Chicago, focusing solely on multifamily apartment buildings. He’s here today to talk about that journey, as well as talk to us about some unique aspects of investing in real estate in Chicago. If you enjoyed...
26 min
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JF1693: Leverage Your Skills To Find Partners &...
Jerome has worked on other peoples’ deals, as well as his own. He and Joe will talk specifics on a 23 unit heavy value add deal that Jerome is still working on. What problems has he ran into, how did he find the deal, and how does he plan on going...
22 min
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JF1692: Tenant Proofing Your Real Estate Invest...
Joe has been building his portfolio by renovating and adding value to his properties, pulling out the equity, and reinvesting into his real estate investing business. We’ve covered that with him previously, today he is going to tell us how to...
16 min
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JF1691: Never Holding Any Investments #Situatio...
The title is simple today because the topic is as straightforward as they come. Greg’s strategy when it comes to real estate investing is to never hold any investments. Ever. He has his reasons and even a method to it, hear why he never holds, and...
19 min
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JF1690: What Are The Challenges You Faced Start...
We’re throwing you a curveball today, neither of our usual hosts are on this episode. We do have two outstanding real estate investors and fellow podcast hosts (bios and podcasts below) with us to share what are the biggest challenges they’ve...
34 min
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JF1689: Learning From Mistakes, Assembling Supe...
Anna and her team have been on fire in the past six months! We get a lot of insight from her today; not only on the success and lessons learned from the past six months, Anna also shares her story of getting to where she is now over the past decade or...
27 min
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JF1688: A Great Team Culture Can Take Your REI ...
Today’s show features a guest whose main focus with his career is helping teams and businesses grow. Danny shares his best advice on the topic with us today, you may be surprised to learn that team culture is often the biggest area of concern for...
26 min
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JF1687: Real Estate Investor Turns Marketer - H...
Our guest today was a real estate investor first, then fell in love with marketing. Quite the opposite of the typical story we hear on the show, typically our guests fall in love with real estate investing and switch careers to real estate. Joe is...
28 min
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JF1686: Finding Partners & Buying The First Mob...
Ryan recently partnered up with some people and bought their first mobile home park. We’ll hear all about how he found the partners, how they structure the agreement, and how they defined the roles. Beyond the partnership, Ryan and Joe will dive...
26 min
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JF1685: Section 199 Cap A Deduction, Save Money...
Chris is a principal in the National Tax Office of CliftonLarsenAllen, and is here today to tell us about a new deduction that can save real estate investors thousands of dollars in taxes. Also known as the pass-through deduction, Chris will give us...
14 min
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JF1684: Teaching Children Wealth Lessons With A...
Danny has been on the show before, but has ventured into a new field to share with us today. He decided to start writing a series of kids’ books about the wealth lessons he has learned along his real estate journey. No doubt that teaching children...
16 min
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JF1683: Keeping An Open Mind Towards Investment...
Follow Along Friday time! Today, Joe is joined by Ellie Perlman who is also a multifamily syndicator and podcast host. Ellie covers keeping an open mind and tells us a story about a deal she recently closed on, had she stuck to her traditional...
24 min
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JF1682: Private Securities 101 Common Mistakes ...
Steve is a long time attorney who specializes in private offerings and securities. A huge insight he drops on this episode, state securities agencies are like profit centers for state governments, and one of the easiest ways for them to make money is...
26 min