The Cincinnati Real Estate Investing Show

Garth Kukla spent nearly a decade wholesaling in Northern Kentucky full-time, and by the end, he wasn't doing any outbound marketing. A 19-year sales background, a reputation for never losing a deal he got under contract, and a network built on generous referral fees turned his operation into 100% inbound by 2021. He knows Covington, Newport, Bellevue, and Dayton the way most investors know their...

Izzy Ong has processed evictions every single month as Director of Operations for TLP Property Management. She built the system that handles delinquency from day one of the month through setout day, and TLP has a 100% success rate in front of Hamilton County magistrates. In this episode, Izzy and Slocomb walk through the exact TLP eviction process from first contact before rent is late through the...

Ethan Bishop has sold over 200 properties in Greater Cincinnati in six years as an agent with the Chabris Group at Keller Williams Seven Hills Realty. He knows which neighborhoods are flying off the shelf, which are quietly stalling, and where the next wave of development is headed before most investors have heard the street names. In this episode, Ethan walks through his 2026 submarket breakdown...

Slocomb Reed is the host of the Cincy REI Show, a partner at Three Little Pigs Investment Services, and has 12+ years investing block-by-block across Cincinnati's most nuanced neighborhoods. He hosted 400+ episodes of the Best Ever CRE Show before launching the Cincy REI Show with co-host Ian Cruz, a CPA and co-GP across 200+ units in Cincinnati. In this episode, they put that combined experience...

JD Schmerge has brokered multifamily deals across Greater Cincinnati for over eight and a half years, first at Marcus & Millichap and now as co-founder of Sabre Group. He has seen the full cycle. He also just bought his first property, a 7-unit in South Covington, and spent year one learning what eight years of brokerage didn't teach him. In this episode, JD breaks down what the Cincinnati mul...

Bret Halsey came to Cincinnati to play soccer for FC Cincinnati. He left with 70 units, 14 four-family acquisitions, and a direct-to-seller cold calling operation built from scratch, after nine months of calls before landing his first deal. In this episode, Bret walks through how he identified Pleasant Ridge as his entry market, why he niched down on the 1960s brick bunker fourplex, and how he wen...

Slocomb Reed Bought Brandon Turner's Distressed 24-Unit Apartment Using A Master Lease.. A Year after being the agent who sold it to him. Here's the full story 👇🏽 In 2019, Slocomb cold-emailed Brandon Turner a BiggerPockets buy-and-hold report on an off-market deal in Cleves. Brandon replied in under an hour. Within days, Slocomb was representing him as a buyer's agent. A year later,...

Joe Cornwell has done 140+ units of multifamily and is mid-construction on a 75,000 square foot mixed-use development built inside a 1905 theater in Reading, Ohio. He knows why infill development inside the 275 loop is structurally constrained, why the Reading Bridal District commands downtown Cincinnati rents four blocks long, and what separates operators who can pull off ground-up development fr...

Jeremy Komer is a Cincinnati-based real estate investor who specializes in value-add multifamily acquisitions in the city's older urban neighborhoods. Since pivoting from a career in aerospace after COVID, he has built a portfolio using nearly every financing tool available, from FHA house hacks to hard money, flips, and commercial construction loans, with a focus on forcing appreciation throu...

Lee Yoder is the founder of Threefold REI , a multifamily syndication company that acquires apartment complexes. Starting with a single house flip in 2017, Lee scaled to 930+ units and has taken three syndications full cycle. He builds his portfolio in small rural markets across Ohio and Indiana where institutional capital won't compete and runs his own in-house property management operation t...

In this LIVE episode, Slocomb Reed and co-host Ian Cruz sit down live at Cincinnati's Best Ever REI Mastermind meetup to talk about how they built their partnership from scratch, scaled from 8 to 100+ units, and saved a deal that was on the brink of not closing on time. They also share fresh Cincinnati rental market data straight from their proprietary web scraper and break down the leasing ta...

Dylan Koch has done 300 off-market deals in Greater Cincinnati. He knows which neighborhoods require block-by-block analysis, why the sub-$250K ARV market is structurally supply-constrained, and what separates buyers who get deals from buyers who get ignored. In this episode, Dylan breaks down what wholesaling in Greater Cincinnati actually looks like in 2026. We cover where deal flow is strongest...

The short-term rental gold rush in Cincinnati is over, but the right operators are still printing cash. Yiwei Cheng , founder of Pink Cash Cow Property Management , manages 30 STR and furnished rental properties across greater Cincinnati and has seen the market shift in real time. In this episode she breaks down exactly what's working in 2026, which neighborhoods are being hit by bans, and wha...

What does it take to survive a real estate crash, rebuild from scratch, and come out the other side with a thriving portfolio? Jerry Garrison has done exactly that, and he's here to share every lesson. With two decades of experience as both an agent and investor in Greater Cincinnati, Jerry has seen these neighborhoods transform firsthand, from distressed and overlooked to some of the most sou...

What does 300 funded real estate deals across Greater Cincinnati actually look like on a map? Grant Smith of Sharper Capital Partners has seen them all: flips, BRRRs, and everything in between. In this episode, he pulls up the data live and breaks down exactly which Cincinnati neighborhoods are producing the most activity, why some areas trend toward holding and others toward selling, and what sep...

Ian Cruz grew up in San Jose, CA, but his Cincinnati story starts at age 13, traveling there for the first time to catch a Bengals game. That connection grew into something bigger: a deep network, real market knowledge, and a growing multifamily portfolio across greater Cincinnati. In this episode, the tables turn as Slocomb interviews co-host Ian Cruz, tracing his full Cincinnati investing journe...

In this episode, the tables turn as Ian Cruz interviews co-host Slocomb Reed, the founder of Three Little Pigs Property Management and a Cincinnati operator with over a decade of boots-on-the-ground experience in the market. Slocomb shares his full Cincinnati origin story, from landing in the city in 2011 after a year in Ecuador, to buying his first house hack in Over-the-Rhine in 2014 for $175,00...

Cincinnati real estate investing is neighborhood-driven, yet most content about this market treats it as if it's uniform. In this inaugural episode of the Cincy REI Show, hosts Slocomb Reed and Ian Cruz explain why that disconnect inspired a podcast dedicated exclusively to investing in Greater Cincinnati. Slocomb shares his perspective as a long-time Cincinnati operator and investor. Ian brin...