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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

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39:59

JF 4051: Intentionality, Health and Legacy Building...

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2025/10/07

On this week’s episode of Best Ever CRE Show, Matt Faircloth interviews John Edwin. John shares his journey from selling Cutco knives and becoming a top trainer in Philadelphia to building gyms, flipping houses, and eventually achieving financial freedom through real estate investing. He reflects on life lessons learned from wealthy clients, the turning point that pushed him toward passive income, and the resilience it took to pivot after COVID shut down his fitness business. John also discusses his

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59:53

JF 4050: Overcoming Setbacks, Building Strength and...

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2025/10/06

On this week’s episode of Unlimited Capital, Richard McGirr interviews Jeffrey Holst. Jeffrey shares how his life philosophy of “no bad days” grew from overcoming leukemia and later melanoma, and how reframing adversity has shaped his entrepreneurial journey. He discusses coping mechanisms for setbacks, including evaluating worst-case scenarios, creating empowering personal identities, and leaning into intentionality in both mindset and presentation. The conversation also explores resilience in

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38:08

JF 4049: Construction Costs, Sector Shifts and...

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2025/10/05

On this week’s episode of The Horizon, John Chang unpacks how shifting government policies around tariffs, immigration, and a potential shutdown could shape commercial real estate over the next several years. He explains why rolling tariffs are inflationary rather than transitory, how tighter immigration reduces labor supply and pushes wages higher, and why delayed government data complicates the Fed’s rate-cut path. John also maps sector-level ripple effects, from construction and value-add cost

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50:57

JF 4048: Capital Calls, Distressed Assets and LP...

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2025/10/04

On this week’s episode of Multifamily Mastery, John Casmon interviews Jack Mullen. Jack shares how his background in banking and his advisory firm, Summer Street Advisors, have positioned him to help both institutional and family office investors navigate due diligence, capital calls, and distressed real estate opportunities. They dive into how LPs should evaluate whether to reinvest in troubled deals, the pitfalls of 1980s vintage multifamily projects, and why execution—not just capital

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60:43

JF 4047: Mobile Home Parks, Self-Storage Skepticism...

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2025/10/03

On this week’s episode of the Best Ever CRE Show, Matt Faircloth interviews Amanda Cruise. In this fireside chat, they dive into Amanda’s journey from a corporate career at Capital One to building a business around manufactured housing and mobile home parks, including her first “Lonnie deals” and lessons on affordability-driven demand. They compare mobile home parks to multifamily, highlighting financing differences, investor demand, and why the mobile home space has seen less distress. The

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55:00

JF 4046: Private Credit Alpha, Cannabis Lending and...

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2025/10/02

On this week’s episode of Passive Income Playbook, Pascal Wagner interviews Peter Sack. They dig into why Chicago Atlantic targets underserved private credit niches, especially state-by-state cannabis lending where limited competition can mean first-lien structures at lower leverage with mid-teens to ~20% returns, plus classic lender protections. Peter explains how regulatory moats, disciplined underwriting, and downside focus beat “sexy” equity stories, and how potential legalization would likely

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67:59

JF 4045: Boring Business Myths, Burnout Lessons and...

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2025/10/01

On this week’s episode of Best Ever Show, Ash and Amanda interview Ian Noble. Ian shares how fourteen years of running a family dry cleaning business led to burnout, a brutal COVID revenue collapse, and the realization that passion and systems matter more than social media hype about “boring businesses.” He explains his pivot to real estate as both an LP and fund-to-funds syndicator, why he favors low-risk private lending and mobile home parks, and how he structures deals so investors get equal or

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29:20

JF 4044: Authenticity Over Clickbait, Generational...

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2025/09/30

On this week’s episode of Best Ever CRE, Ash Patel goes full-send on authenticity in real estate and social media, calling out clickbait growth hacks and the hollow vanity metrics behind them. He unpacks why “generational funds” and decade-long holds often mask weak deals, and why infinite banking is just expensive life insurance dressed up with fancy marketing. Ash also takes aim at sloppy capital raising, urges investors to prioritize net worth over door count or passive-income theatrics, and

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60:04

JF 4043: Storytelling in Deals, Overcoming Objections...

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2025/09/29

On this week’s episode of Unlimited Capital, Richard McGirr interviews Craig Eppler. Craig shares how he discovered the power of storytelling in raising capital and why investors connect more deeply with relatable narratives than with statistics. He explains how he builds a story library, ties deals to personal experiences, and uses stories to overcome objections in investor conversations. Richard and Craig also dive into tactics for capital raising, from ethical scarcity in debt funds to influencer

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38:05

JF 4042: Employment Revisions, Migration Slowdown and...

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2025/09/28

On this week’s episode of Horizon, John Chang unpacks where multifamily demand is heading amid conflicting data and shifting migration trends. He explains how the August employment revisions, slower domestic and international migration, and a still-wide rent-to-own payment gap could cool absorption in the near term, especially across high-construction Sun Belt markets. John contrasts those headwinds with steadier fundamentals in supply-constrained “snow belt” metros, notes the growing importance of

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53:14

JF 4041: Tenant Credit, Triple Net Leases and...

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2025/09/27

On this week’s episode of Multifamily Mastery, John Casmon interviews David Hrizak. With nearly three decades of experience across asset classes, David shares his evolution from Chicago broker to vertically integrated developer and investor. He recounts the pivotal $4M townhome project during the Great Recession, the sudden loss of his partner, and how relationships with community banks helped him pivot, survive, and ultimately thrive. David explains why he shifted from multifamily to

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51:57

JF 4040: Poker Strategy, Economic Trends and Real...

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2025/09/26

On this week’s episode of Next Level CRE, Matt Faircloth interviews J Scott. The two dive into J’s past as a professional poker player and draw parallels between poker strategy and real estate investing, including the importance of game selection, discipline, and knowing when to walk away from bad deals. They also tackle the state of the economy, discussing inflation, potential recession scenarios, and how government spending could shape the next 6 to 12 months. J ScottCurrent role: Entrepreneur,

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65:03

JF 4039: Triple Net Leases, Industrial...

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2025/09/25

On this week’s episode of Passive Income Playbook, Pascal Wagner interviews Judd Dunning. In this primer on triple-net sale-leasebacks, Judd breaks down gross vs. modified-gross vs. NNN/absolute NNN, why operating companies sell their real estate and lease it back, and how tenant credit and location drive risk and return. He compares NNN to self-storage, multifamily, office and retail, then outlines how industrial logistics and on-shoring are shaping today’s cap rates, spreads, and refinance

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53:32

JF 4038: Building a Scalable Land Business, Managing...

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2025/09/24

On this week’s episode of Best Ever CRE, Amanda Cruise and Ash Patel interview Mark “The Land Geek” Podolsky. Mark shares how he transitioned from being a burned-out investment banker to building a 25-year career in land investing, completing over 6,500 transactions. He explains his strategy of buying rural land at 25 to 30 cents on the dollar, flipping for profit, and creating recurring passive income streams through seller financing. Mark also dives into how he builds systems, manages risk, and

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JF 4037: How AI Prints Money in Real Estate ft. Joe...

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2025/09/23

On this week’s episode of Next Level CRE, Matt Faircloth interviews Joe Fairless. They introduce Joe's new Youtube segment, Best Ever AI How To, and some of the tips he's learned so far. They dig into why adopting AI now is like swapping swords for a machine gun in business, how to turn a single 20 to 30 minute conversation into a full month of marketing assets, and why iterative human guidance keeps AI-generated content from getting spam-filtered. Joe shares takeaways from interviews with AI

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58:45

JF 4036: Ads That Scale, Webinar Funnels and KPI...

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2025/09/22

On this week’s episode of Unlimited Capital, Richard McGirr interviews Rohan Saxena. They dig into how to use paid ads as one piece of a diversified capital stack, and the exact “indoctrination sequence” that moves cold prospects from awareness to due diligence to funding. Rohan breaks down practical webinar and VSL funnels, split CTAs, show-up rate benchmarks, and simple KPI tracking using UTMs and a CRM so you can see which hooks actually convert. They also cover ad budget math, adding a small

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JF 4035: Rate Cuts, Retail Resilience and...

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2025/09/21

On this week’s episode of Horizon Podcast, John Chang breaks down the Fed’s latest rate cut, why he thinks it’s driven more by confidence and political pressure than liquidity, and what the dot plot implies for the next few years. He explains how lower rates could briefly unjam CRE deal flow, then pivots to retail where inflation-adjusted sales are still rising and household leverage looks manageable relative to income. John also maps out how a mild, tariff- and labor-constraint-driven slowdown

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51:10

JF 4034: From Student Housing to Build-to-Rent,...

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2025/09/20

On this week’s episode of Multifamily Mastery, John Casmon interviews Jeff Niemeier. Jeff explains how his journey began in student housing, scaled into workforce rentals, and ultimately led him to focus on build-to-rent townhomes in Iowa. He shares how leveraging his unfair advantage of deep local knowledge and strong partnerships—has given him control over projects and higher margins than traditional multifamily. Jeff also details his entrepreneurial background in internet and cable services, his

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JF 4033: From Turnkeys to Billions, GP Breakups and...

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2025/09/19

On this week’s episode of The Best Ever CRE Show, Matt Faircloth interviews Lane Kawaoka. Lane shares how he scaled from house hacking and turnkeys to mid-sized multifamily, then to more than a billion in acquisitions, and why smaller C-class assets can be the hardest to operate. He opens up about a tough partnership that required removing a GP, the critical role of bank draw paperwork and airtight operating agreements, and how tax status changes can swing valuations by seven figures. Lane also

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57:58

JF 4032: Silver Tsunami, Smart Leverage and...

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2025/09/18

On this week’s episode of Passive Income Playbook, Pascal Wagner interviews Sean Smith. They dig into the search fund landscape from traditional and self-funded models to independent sponsors, why the silver tsunami and SBA financing make now a compelling moment, and Sean’s thesis of backing essential businesses serving attractive end markets. Sean also walks through his four-part diligence system and a 200+ point checklist, how he evaluates terms so LPs are actually protected, and what realistic

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