Joe Fairless

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...

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Joe Fairless

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Business

Podcast website

www.bestevercre.com

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

JF1590: How To Raise Capital From Private Investors Part 7 of 8 | Syndication School with Theo Hicks 09.01.2019

Now that we’re actually talking to investors, we’ll be answering a lot of questions. You’ll really want to know some common questions that come up, and how to answer them. That’s what Theo will be going over today in this episode of Syndication School. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “Passive investors invest based off of who t...

JF1589: Blockchain Real Estate Investor Helps Source Deals with Chao Cheng-Shorland 08.01.2019

Chao is with us today to talk about how investors can search properties, make offers, and purchase real estate directly on the blockchain. She created a company to help investors and agents do this after she saw the need for a product like this in the marketplace. Hear how her technology can help your investing and/or the businesses of your real estate investor clients. If you enjoyed today’s epis...

JF1588: Find One Market And Scale Until You Can Leave Your Full Time Job with JC Castillo 07.01.2019

JC got his start as a part time investor, working hard to get to a point of leaving his job as a mechanical engineer. Now a full time investor, JC is a value add apartment investor. He also has a passion for technology and says that has helped him grow his business. Hear how he was able to quit his job and be a full time investor, and what he’s doing now to continue the growth. If you enjoyed toda...

JF1587: Finding More Deals Than You Can Handle & Scaling Your SFR Portfolio #SkillSetSunday with Greg Rand 06.01.2019

Today we welcome back Greg Rand who has told us about investment markets before on the show (link to that episode is below). Now he is the CEO of a platform that has an abundance of deals for single family investors. At the time of recording, they had $200 million in assets for sale on their website. Hear how they find all these deals and take notes to use for you own deal searching, or buy someth...

JF1586: Want To Scale Your Real Estate Biz But Need Some Help? #SituationSaturday with Jordan Fleming 05.01.2019

As a Podio expert, Jordan is constantly working with investors and property managers to help them scale their businesses. He specializes in helping others automate some aspects of their business so they can concentrate on the activities that are most important to their business. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “Guys who are at...

JF1585: 3 Tips to Make Your 2019 Real Estate Business Better Than 2018 #FollowAlongFriday with Joe and Theo 04.01.2019

Happy New Year! Joe and Theo are back for the first Follow-Along Friday of 2019 to talk about how they approach setting goals. We’ll hear three strategies to make your real estate business better in 2019 than it was in 2018. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: What are other people doing who are achieving success that I can do bett...

JF1584: German Immigrant With Only 2 Suitcases Grows Real Estate Biz To 3,800 Deals with Jack Bosch 03.01.2019

Jack traveled to the US to finish school for a year and go back home. That plan fell through however as he met his future wife and started investing in real estate. Starting with raw land, trying wholesaling, tax liens/tax deeds, eventually moving into commercial and multifamily properties. Hear how he grew from nothing to a very successful investor and apply the lessons to your own business! If y...

JF1583: From Successful Producer To Successful Real Estate Investor & Agent with Peter Lorimer 02.01.2019

Peter got into the real estate industry around 2005 and hasn’t looked back. He has a way of finding the hot spots and upcoming hot-spots in neighborhoods and capitalizing, as well as helping his clients capitalize on the upswing. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “I thought Los Angeles was terribly undervalued” - Peter Lorimer Pe...

JF1582: Scaling A Single Family Investing Biz To 7,000 Deals In 14 Years with Lee Kearney 01.01.2019

Lee has been a real estate investor for well over a decade. He prefers to invest in single family homes, and has bought and sold over 7,000 properties since 2004. As he says, he’s done everything you can do in the single family space. If you want to learn how to scale to a huge investing business, listen to this episode and take notes. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes...

JF1581: Necessary Sacrifices & How To Successfully Operate 4 Strategies At Once with Shane Connor 31.12.2018

Shane has multiple successful strategies he uses in his real estate investing career. Hear the sacrifices he made to grow his business to where it is today, and how he is able to divide his focus across multiple strategies and businesses. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “You’re never gonna win on the sidelines, you can analyze...

JF1580: Learning To Diversify Our Investing Portfolios With The Stock Market with Tyrone Jackson 30.12.2018

As real estate investors, we love real estate! Tyrone had a different experience with real estate investing, not a good one. He fell in love with the stock market after that and never looked back. Now Tyrone not only helps his own portfolio and wallet, he helps others learn how to invest in the stock market, with a lot of real estate investor clients that just want to diversify. If you enjoyed tod...

JF1579: Scaling To 75 Units Using Creative Financing with Jason & Carrie Harris 29.12.2018

Jason and Carrie are partners in life and partners in real estate. Together they have built a big portfolio of real estate, comprised of mostly small multifamily buildings. They have also been able to acquire a lot of them through seller financing. Hear how they are able to find and close on so many seller financed deals. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us...

JF1578: Making Life Easier For Landlords & Real Estate Investors with Heath Silverman 28.12.2018

You may have heard of Stessa before, they’re only our current show sponsor. You’ve heard what I have to say about them in the intro, today we will dive in deeper and learn more about what Stessa is and how it can help you with your real estate investing business. From seeing investment performance at the press of a button, to tracking income and expenses, Stessa can help us see performance and mak...

JF1577: How To Raise Capital From Private Investors Part 6 of 8 | Syndication School with Theo Hicks 27.12.2018

Now we have found our investors, had a phone call, and have sent them a deal. Now we’ll have to conquer their objections. Theo will discuss what are common objections and how to handle them. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “You need to have alignment of interests" Free document for this episode: http://bit.ly/2VdxYmn Sponsored...

JF1576: How To Raise Capital From Private Investors Part 5 of 8 | Syndication School with Theo Hicks 26.12.2018

Ready for some more apartment syndication knowledge? Lucky for you, Theo has plenty more knowledge to drop on us today. We’ll be learning more about raising the money we need to complete these deals. Specifically, we’re discussing how to “court” the passive investors that you have found through the methods discussed in the last two Syndication School episodes. If you enjoyed today’s episode rememb...

JF1575: Buying Seller Financed Debt & Avoiding Prohibited Transactions With Your IRA | Merry Christmas! | with Terry White 25.12.2018

Terry has a very extensive background in both real estate and general investments. Along with his own real estate investing, he helps other people invest in real estate and other investments through their Self Directed IRA’s. Hear a different investing strategy and learn what you can and can’t do with your Self Directed IRA. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave...

JF1574: From Real Estate Being A JOB To Being A Passive Investor with Steeve Breton 24.12.2018

Steeve was like a lot of real estate investors, started buying properties to hold and was self managing. He grew tired of all the work he was having to do, a full time job almost. He started passively investing in apartment syndications and never looked back, even performing his own syndication deals now. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ev...

JF1573: Getting Great Online Reviews For Your Real Estate Investing Biz #SkillSetSunday with Brian Greenberg 23.12.2018

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 reviews for our businesses as well. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “I’ve seen bus...

JF1572: From Selling Cars To 86 Units Before The Age Of 21 with Tyler Hassman 22.12.2018

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 never looked back, purchasing a $1.5 million multifamily property right off the jump. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and l...

JF1571: Pay Less Taxes & Perform Proper Cost Segregation Studies with Alan Goldstein 21.12.2018

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 for the investor. Find out why and when a cost segregation study would make sense for you. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTu...

JF1570: How To Raise Capital From Private Investors Part 4 of 8 | Syndication School with Theo Hicks 20.12.2018

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 this process. These 12 ways to find investors are tested and proven to work by Joe himself. These tactics and strategies have raised enough money from p...

JF1569: How To Raise Capital From Private Investors Part 3 of 8 | Syndication School with Theo Hicks 19.12.2018

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 hear six more ways to find our passive investors tomorrow. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Eve...

JF1568: From Early Retirement To Helping Others Do The Same with Michael Zuber 18.12.2018

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 live the life they want. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “Sellers are usually hidin...

JF1567: Increase Net Worth & Have Your Money Working For You with Mark Willis 17.12.2018

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 whole life insurance. Confused? Me too, until I listened to his explanation in this episode. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTu...

JF1566: Banker Leaves Job To Help Investors Save Money On Energy Bills with Harsh Patel 16.12.2018

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 Harsh can help alleviate some of that burden and possible even increase the value on your property. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in...

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