Best Joe Fairless Podcasts (2025)

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JF 4106: Niche Media, CRE Storytelling and Viral Growth ft. Hiten Samtani 57:00

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Richard McGirr interviews Hiten Samtani, founder of 1031 Media and creator of The Promote. Hiten shares how his background running the newsroom at The Real Deal shaped his approach to storytelling, why he built a media company that treats real estate like the character-driven, high-stakes world it truly is, and how entertainment is the secret ingre…

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JF 4105: Slowing Hiring, Capital Costs and the Hidden Advantages for Today’s Investors with John Chang 30:41

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John Chang shares why commercial real estate data has become less reliable following the DOJ’s settlement with RealPage, and how losing access to more precise rent and vacancy feeds weakens investor decision-making. He walks through the market’s wildly shifting expectations for a potential December 10 Fed rate cut and argues that political pressure…

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JF 4104: Raising Capital, Retaining Residents and Running Apartments the Right Way ft. Ed Mathews 50:46

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John Casmon interviews Ed Mathews, a former Silicon Valley tech executive who walked away from a high-flying software career to build a more family-centered, freedom-focused life through real estate. Ed shares how missing too many “18 summers” with his daughters pushed him to leave DocuSign and go all-in on multifamily after seven years of flipping…

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JF 4103: Affordable Housing Incentives, Multifamily Cycles and Smarter Underwriting ft. Robert Beardsley 1:08:39

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Matt Faircloth interviews Robert Beardsley, partner at Lone Star Capital (LSCRE), about navigating the current multifamily cycle, surviving 2021–2022 acquisitions, and why the most resilient opportunities today hinge on debt structure, affordability incentives, and supply-constrained submarkets. Robert breaks down how Texas multifamily has shifted …

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JF 4102: Cash Flow vs. Tax Benefits, Capital Raising Lessons and Navigating Today’s Market ft. Bronson Hill 1:03:01

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Pascal Wagner interviews Bronson Hill, founder of Bronson Equity, about how LPs can invest confidently in today’s noisy and divided market. Bronson shares how raising $50M+ across multifamily, oil & gas, and alternative real estate has shaped the way he vets operators, evaluates risk, and structures deals more conservatively after recent market cha…

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JF 4101: Cross-Border Capital, Tariff Headwinds and Investing in Western New York ft. Thomas A. Kucharski 44:10

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Amanda Cruise and Ash Patel interview Thomas A. Kucharski, president and CEO of Invest Buffalo Niagara, about how his organization has helped transform Western New York from a legacy manufacturing market into a growing tech and advanced industry hub. He explains how their team centralizes regional data, builds commercial listing systems, and acts a…

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JF 4100: Ten Years of Best Ever Con, Industry Shifts, and Lessons from Top Investors ft. Ben Lapidus 43:46

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Matt Faircloth sits down with Ben Lapidus for a deep-dive into the origins, evolution, and future of the Best Ever Conference as it approaches its tenth year. Ben shares how a chance Skillshare class with Joe Fairless in 2012 sparked their partnership, how the conference grew from 175 attendees to a premier commercial real estate event, and why it …

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JF 4099: Building Systems, Teams and Enterprise Value in CRE ft. Nick Jones 57:46

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Richard McGirr interviews Nick Jones, founder and CEO of Alakai Capital, about how he scaled his commercial real estate company from a solo operation into a multi-department organization. Nick shares how he transitioned from land brokerage into development, why retail provided the best entry point for his early deals, and how cultivating tenant and…

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4098: Cap Rates, Hiring Trends and the Next CRE Cycle with John Chang 28:30

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John Chang breaks down the September jobs report, the ripple effects of tariffs, and what current economic uncertainty means for commercial real estate investors. He explains how healthcare employment is propping up national job growth, why stalled hiring across most industries is signaling caution, and how policy unpredictability is weighing on bu…

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JF 4097: Scaling Mistakes, Mentorship Breakthroughs and Smarter Deal Structures ft. James Faillettaz 48:48

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John Casmon interviews James Faillettaz, a Minneapolis-based investor who scaled from five units in a spreadsheet to restructuring an entire real estate company after an ambitious early strategy nearly collapsed. James shares how he over-hired, over-built, and over-extended while trying to operate like a Silicon Valley startup—then completely rebui…

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JF 4096: Off-Market Strategies That Actually Work ft. Christian Macellari 54:12

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Matt Faircloth interviews Christian Macellari, Head of Acquisitions and CIO at RSN Property Group, about how their team has grown more than 20% in the past 15–16 months by staying disciplined, data-driven, and relentless in sourcing opportunities. Christian explains how RSN underwrites roughly 400 deals a year to close just a few, why top-down mark…

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JF 4095: The 3 Types of Income Every LP Must Understand 16:05

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Pascal Wagner breaks down how the IRS categorizes income into three buckets—active, portfolio, and passive—and why high-income earners often misunderstand how tax write-offs actually work. He explains common investor mistakes, including expecting real estate depreciation to offset W-2 or stock-market gains, and shares the simple rule that changed h…

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BRRR 2.0: The Build-to-Rent Edition — with Natalie Cloutier (Eps- 203) Part - II 23:48

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Send us a text In this episode, 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 — Author, Developer, and Real Estate Investor from The New Building Couple — breaks down the real, behind-the-scenes journey of building wealth through real estate. From navigating strict Canadian tenant laws to dealing with construction nightmares, city fees, book launch battles, and finding the bal…

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JF 4094: From Truck Sleeping to Nine-Figure Net Worth ft. Jeremy Barker 49:36

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Amanda Cruise and Ash Patel interview Jeremy Barker, a former firefighter turned serial entrepreneur who has built a nine-figure net worth through value-add industrial and office deals. Jeremy walks through how he bought nearly vacant, 100,000+ square foot assets, pre-leased them during due diligence, and created tens of millions in equity with ver…

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JF 4093: Ads, Email and AI Voice That Actually Converts ft. Jeffrey Brogger 25:51

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On this week’s episode, Joe Fairless interviews Jeffrey Brogger. Jeffrey shares practical ways to revive “dead” contacts using AI voice agents that hold natural two-way conversations and surface real buying signals. He explains where these tools outperform blast emails and basic SMS, why latency and compliance matter, and how he builds lower-cost, …

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JF 4092: Why Cold Traffic Fails and Trust-Based Marketing Wins with Richard McGirr 36:45

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Richard McGirr breaks down why most syndicators struggle with online ads and explains why cold traffic is the last place capital raisers should be spending money. He argues that private investments require a level of trust that interruptive ads can’t establish, and that most managers burn cash chasing low-quality Facebook leads with terrible conver…

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JF 4091: Cap Rates, Debt Costs and the 2025 Investment Sweet Spot with John Chang 29:20

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John Chang breaks down the latest economic and market signals after a week of meetings in New York City. He explains how the temporary government funding deal both alleviates short-term pressures and extends broader uncertainty—impacting GDP, consumer spending, and investor sentiment. John also unpacks capital flows, interest-rate volatility tied t…

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JF 4090: Surviving Downturns, Picking Operators and Buying the Recovery ft. Travis Watts 52:32

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John Casmon interviews Travis Watts, a long-time Best Ever contributor, full-time LP, and author of Passive Investor Tips. They dig into where we are in the multifamily market cycle, why the last three-plus years have felt so painful for LPs, and why Travis believes we’re entering a true recovery phase that could mirror the opportunity of buying in…

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JF 4089: Assisted Living Mistakes, Million-Dollar Lessons and Operational Excellence ft. Todd Dexheimer 1:12:05

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Matt Faircloth interviews Todd Dexheimer, a multifamily and assisted living operator focused on steady, fundamentals-driven investing. Todd breaks down how he thinks about market selection—favoring job and population growth, sane rent-to-income ratios, and controlled new supply over “sexy” boom-bust metros. He then walks through a massive 99-unit v…

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JF 4088: Institutional Capital, Retail LPs and Choosing the Right Operator ft. Evan Polaski 1:08:56

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Pascal Wagner interviews Evan Polaski, digging into what 18 years across retail and multifamily have taught him about raising capital through multiple market cycles. Evan shares what it was really like trying to raise an institutional fund heading into the 2008 crisis, how the “denominator effect” froze commitments, and why that experience still sh…

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BRRR 2.0: The Build-to-Rent Edition — with Natalie Cloutier (Eps- 203) Part - I 26:07

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Send us a text In this episode, 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 — Author, Developer, and Real Estate Investor from The New Building Couple — reveals how she turned zero capital into a thriving real estate portfolio using her BRRR 2.0: Build-to-Rent strategy. From living rent-free for 10 years to scaling multifamily projects, Nathalie shares lessons on risk, zonin…

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JF 4087: Solar-Powered Storage, Smart Financing and Future Growth ft. Steven Wear 43:16

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Amanda Cruise and Ash Patel interview Steven Wear, chief marketing officer of SSSE, about the firm’s nationwide self-storage investments and how it’s evolving the model through creative financing and energy innovation. Steven explains how SSSE focuses on secondary and tertiary markets to avoid oversaturation and zoning risks, and why they advocate …

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JF 4086: How Service Providers Can Stand Out at Conferences ft. Spencer Carpenter 48:27

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Richard McGirr interviews Spencer Carpenter, Best Ever CRE’s guest booker and founder of Outlier Audio, to workshop networking strategy for the Best Ever Conference. They dig into how to define an ideal client profile, sell outcome-based podcast campaigns instead of one-off bookings, and qualify prospects quickly so Spencer only offers high-touch s…

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JF 4085: Charts That Matter, Honest Updates and Lower Cost of Capital ft. Ryan Floyd 47:51

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Richard McGirr interviews Ryan Floyd, a portfolio manager at Barca Capital, about why thoughtful, authentic investor relations is one of the most overlooked levers for raising and retaining capital. Ryan explains how most IR decks fail by avoiding honest discussion of what isn’t working, over-summarizing numbers in text, and underusing long-term, s…

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JF 4084: Data Centers, AI Disruption and The Case For Small Bay Industrial with John Chang 37:14

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John Chang breaks down the Urban Land Institute and PwC 2026 Emerging Trends report and what it means for commercial real estate investors. He walks through ULI’s top ten markets to watch, including Dallas, Miami, Houston, Northern New Jersey, Tampa, and Phoenix, highlighting where overdevelopment, insurance costs, and local policy risks could pres…

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JF 4083: Multifamily Deals, Oil And Gas Cash Flow and Debt Fund Opportunities ft. Bronson Hill 47:55

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John Casmon interviews Bronson Hill. Bronson shares how he walked away from a high-paying medical sales career to pursue time freedom, eventually raising over $50 million for multifamily, oil and gas, debt funds, and development deals. He and John dig into the core reasons investors should define their goals around cash flow, capital preservation, …