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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JF1631: What Does Success Look Like? Money Isn’...
Corey saw real estate success early in life, not his own, but his step dad at the time was wildly successful, and it was from real estate. After that, Corey read Rich Dad Poor Dad and started his own real estate journey. He was doing well, a lot of...
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JF1630: Raising Capital For Completing BIG Deal...
Raising enough money to complete the large deals that John and his company do takes a lot of trial and error, and on the job learning. Figuring out what works and what doesn’t work when raising money can be a painful process, so can scaling a real...
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JF1629: Passive Investing In Commercial Real Es...
Today we’re welcoming back James to share some passive investing knowledge with us. He recently wrote a book on the subject, and has spent a lot of his real estate investing career dealing with passive investors himself. If you are a passive...
18 min
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JF1628: Identify An Up-And-Coming Market Before...
Brent is back to share more great knowledge with us (see his first episode below). He is an investor in Detroit, focusing on the revitalization of the city. Brent excels at finding the areas of Detroit that are just beginning to turn around, and start...
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JF1627: Listener Questions: How To Obtain My Fi...
For this week’s Follow Along Friday, Joe and Theo are answering another list of questions from a listener. This conversation can resonate with every level of investor because some of the tips and advice they offer are things we should always be...
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JF1626: How To Find Your First Apartment Syndic...
Part 6: Two more deal finding case studies Yesterday Theo talked to us and walked us through an example of cold texting to find an apartment syndication deal. Today, we get two more case studies of deal finding. One case study is from Joe on how he...
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JF1625: How To Find Your First Apartment Syndic...
Part 5: Cold Texting Welcome back to syndication school! This week, Theo is wrapping up the series on “how to find your first apartment community”. Today he’ll be covering cold texting owners of apartment buildings and communities. If you...
25 min
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JF1624: From Homeless To Creating A Fund For Th...
Growing up, Pete watched his Grandma own a lot of real estate and seemingly do whatever she wanted to do. He set goals to be the same way when he grew up. As life so often does, Pete was thrown some curveballs. He found himself homeless, joined the...
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JF1623: From Living In His Car To Building Mill...
This episode takes a little bit of a dive into the mindset and habits that are needed to take one’s self from a place you’re not happy with, to thriving both personally and professionally. We also hear about how to build large businesses and even...
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JF1622: How To Leave Behind A Legacy & Set Up H...
Aaron has been on before, this time he’s talking about how he is setting up his children to succeed after he is gone. This is important for obvious reasons, and some less obvious reasons. Hear why Aaron is doing this, and how he is able to do it for...
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JF1621: Why Enjoying Your Real Estate Journey I...
Paul had everything most newer real estate investors want; a large business with a lot of units and employees. He began to want something else however, cashed out and took up modeling in Asia! Now he and his family are back in the States and building...
28 min
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JF1620: How Important Is A Social Media Presenc...
Social media. It consumes a lot of people at all times of the day. Today, Joe and Theo are answering a question sent in from a listener asking about social media and it’s importance for real estate investors, especially just starting out in...
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JF1619: How To Find Your First Apartment Syndic...
Part 4: 9 More Ways to Find Off-Market Deals Don’t need much description and intro here. We’re continuing last episode’s focus on finding off market deals. Let’s get to it! If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and...
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JF1618: How To Find Your First Apartment Syndic...
Part 3: The Main Way To Find Off-Market Apartment Deals Last week Theo began discussing how to find properties for you to syndicate. We heard about on market properties, now it’s time to start talking about off market properties. When it comes to...
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JF1617: Millenial Real Estate Investor Reaches ...
From no job and submitting endless amounts of job applications to entrepreneur and financial independence, all in just 6 years time. Grant got his start by getting certified with Google Ad Words and hit the ground running, getting into real estate...
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JF1616: Software Developer Gets Into House Hack...
Diego came to the United States as an immigrant with his parent when he was nine years old. He is a DACA recipient and is successfully working full time while building his real estate business. From his first house hack, to strictly investment...
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JF1615: How To Set Up A Development Business Fo...
Steven is a returning guest who has built an incredible development business. One of his strategies is to build four unit buildings, rather than single family homes or large apartment buildings. He has been doing that for years and has a very large...
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JF1614: BRRR Method Investing With Delayed Fina...
Alex has a very specific way of investing, and he’s here today to tell us about it. He has seen a lot of success so far, and has also helped others do the same. Hear about his strategy in today’s episode. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember...
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JF1613: Top Apartment Syndication Questions We ...
Joe received an email with a lot of apartment syndication questions recently. He decided to make an entire episode answering the questions. The questions Joe will be answering are: I was curious about syndication deal structure. I'm curious...
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JF1612: How To Find Your First Apartment Syndic...
Part 2: How to Find Apartment Deals From Real Estate Brokers A very obvious way to find deals: get a broker to bring you on market deals. That being said, it can be a lot easier said than done to earn a good broker’s trust. Theo has covered that in...
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JF1611: How To Find Your First Apartment Syndic...
We’ve covered a lot of the apartment syndication process so far. Now it’s time to start talking about actually searching for and finding that elusive first deal. We’ve talked due diligence, financing, raising money, and how to structure the GP...
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JF1610: From Prison Guard To Successful Apartme...
If you’re in a job that maybe you don’t love, Darrin was there too. Luckily, he came across the book Rich Dad Poor Dad and like so many of us, was turned on to real estate investing. He’ll walk us through his current strategies and how he...
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JF1609: Successful Entrepreneur Invests In Real...
Many entrepreneurs have the issue of writing big fat checks to Uncle Sam every year for income taxes. Dan was in that situation and knew that investing in real estate could help him keep some of his money, and make it earn more money too. We’ll hear...
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JF1608: How To Recession Proof Your Real Estate...
You know the name by now, he’s an in demand speaker and a best selling author. J is back to add more value to our lives, as always, this time having a discussion on the state of the market, and how to survive regardless of which part of the market...
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JF1607: More Creative Ways To Attract Leads #Si...
Even if you currently have more leads than you can handle, at some point they may slow down, or you continue to scale and need more and more leads. Either way, having more ways to bring in leads can only benefit your business. If you enjoyed today’s...
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