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The Best Ever CRE Show

by Joe Fairless

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.

Latest episodes

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The Broker-Dealer Line When Raising Capital ft. Tilden Moschetti

Richard sits down with syndication attorney and CCIM, Tilden Moschetti, to break down what actually changes when capital gets tight - and why sponsors are getting pushed

Nov 2
41 min

Falling Deliveries Could Trigger Multifamily’s Next Boom

Andrew Cushman lays out why the next 12 to 24 months may be the most important buying window of the cycle, and why the real opportunity is likely to appear when most inve

Oct 30
35 min

Father Time Is Driving Storage Sales ft. Joe Downs

Amanda Cruise and Ash Patel press Joe on what has changed since his January 2025 call, and his answer is blunt: the market is still attractive, but the operators who win

Oct 28
34 min

The Capital Raising Tier List: How I'd Close a $3M Raise in 90 Days

Richard McGirr talks about how most capital raises are won or lost before the first call, and this episode reveals the exact channels that actually move money when you ne

Oct 26
29 min

Why Class A Deals May Be Safer ft. Michael Becker

Michael, co-founder and principal of SPI Advisory, joins Andrew Cushman to break down what he learned as a lender, how he scaled from broken-deal workouts to 8,500 units

Oct 23
58 min

Where Industrial Investors Can Still Find Opportunity ft. Stephanie Rodriguez

Ash Patel presses Stephanie on the questions every industrial investor wants answered: Which markets are actually strong, what is driving demand, and whether the next wav

Oct 21
29 min

Nobody Joins a Lifestyle Business

Richard McGirr talks about how the firms that scale fastest are the ones that outgrow mediocre hires before they outgrow the founder. Richard McGurr breaks down the bruta

Oct 19
41 min

Commercial Real Estate’s New Rate Reality ft. John Chang

Matt Faircloth talks to John Chang, he lays out the forces pushing Treasury yields higher inflation, tariffs, immigration policy, Middle East conflict, swelling U.S. debt

Oct 16
49 min

How Entity Mistakes Trap Real Estate ft. Tal Binder

Ash Patel talks to Tal Binder, the CEO and Founder of Gelt, a tech-driven tax company serving individuals and businesses across all 50 states. Gelt combines CPAs, tax pro

Oct 14
41 min

How to Pitch Multifamily Deals to LPs

Most multifamily pitches lose the room in the first 30 seconds. Richard breaks down exactly why the wrong framing kills trust, why bashing the stock market backfires with

Oct 12
45 min

Self-Storage Isn’t as Resilient as Manufactured Housing ft. Matt Ricciardela

Matt Faircloth talks to Matt Ricciardella of Crystal View Capital, overseeing a portfolio of over $600 million. Known for innovative sourcing and value-add strategies in

Oct 9
45 min

Framework Anyone Can Use To Build Lasting Wealth ft. M.C. Laubscher

Ash Patel and Amanda Cruise talk to M.C. Laubscher about how Whole life insurance gets dragged online for a reason, but most people are criticizing the wrong policy. They

Oct 7
58 min

How to Use a Book to Win High-Trust Deals ft. Adam Witty

Richard and Adam unpack the counterintuitive reason so many entrepreneurs fail: they’re great at addition and terrible at subtraction. Most founders and fund managers tre

Oct 5
54 min

Chicago Beats Tertiary Markets for Small Multifamily Investors ft. Cody Ray, and John Warren

Matt, Cody, and John talk about advice on how to avoid big-city multifamily that is missing the real opportunity. In Chicago, Cody Ray and John Warren have built a model

Oct 2
43 min

Hidden Advantage of Buying Land Nobody Wants ft. Seth WIlliams

Amanda Cruise and Ash Patel press Seth on the exact playbook behind his land business, from sending direct mail to apathetic owners to making deep discounted offers on pr

Sep 30
35 min

How a Real Estate Analyst Sold a Music Festival to MTV ft. Chris Tourtellotte

Richard McGirr talks to Chris Tourtellotte. From a music festival side hustle to a $455 million Chicago portfolio, Chris shows how going bigger from day one can create op

Sep 28
48 min

Retirement Is a Scarcity Mindset, Not a Goal ft. Chris Larsen

Matt Faircloth and Chris Larsen break down the mindset and strategy behind Next Level Income and Chris's new free book, How to Be Financially Free by 40, a concise roadma

Sep 25
40 min

Commercial Lease Mistakes That Turn Good Tenants Into Nightmares

Amanda Cruise and Ash Patel get into the kind of opportunistic investing most people never hear about, including Ash’s off-the-cuff bar acquisition hunt in Pittsburgh, ho

Sep 23
29 min

The Hidden Problem with Crowdfunding Real Estate Deals ft. Anna-Marie Allander Lieb

Richard MacGirr talks to Anna-Marie Allander Lieb as she shares how Kinect Real Estate Partners is building a retail channel from the ground up for American Capital Group

Sep 21
44 min

The AI Gold Rush Is Real ft. Carson Jones

Matt Faircloth talks to Carson Jones, a broker, investor, and syndicator at Passive Investments. He also works across business sales, multifamily, industrial, oil and gas

Sep 18
41 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

John was a great host. We dug into the details of scaling from small multifamily to midsize multifamily properties. He understands the nuances of scaling a company and asked insightful questions. He has a thoughtful approach to his interviews. I recommend John and The Best Ever CRE Show.

Mat Pezon · Feb 2026

This show is in my queue every day. Love the content! One thing that I find detrimental is that some of the interviewers constantly interrupt the guests. Aside from that, please keep up the great shows!

Missional Capital · Oct 2024

The content on this prodcasf is great, they cover many different sections of CRE. Also a fan of the multiple hosts. The only negative is their production, the volume from the guest and host are often very far apart. Also background thunder sound for the lighting round is obnoxiously loud and completely unnecessary

whduevsirogbsd · May 2024

These guys always delivery quality content that is easy to listen to. I really appreciate their laidback approach.

Brittanys Rule! · Jun 2023

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