The Best Ever CRE Show

We’re going to hear Joe’s top three favorite lessons learned last week when doing the interviews for this podcast. Lessons learned are coming from Amanda Cassiday (https://www.amandacassiday.com/), Peter Conti (https://realestate101.com/), Andrew Keel (https://www.andrewkeel.com/). If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “If they are looking to grow their business, and you follow these five steps to get your money back after being burned, you increase your odds of getting it back” Free Apartment Syndication Resources: Example T12: http://bit.ly/bestevert12  Example Rent Roll: http://bit.ly/besteverrentroll  Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moving further away from the Syndication process, Theo is now diving into different stories from himself, Joe, and different guests on the podcast. Today, we’re hearing about a deal that taught an investor a couple of valuable lessons (creating alignment of interest and raising money before or after the deal). Hearing their experience and learning from it, can save you from having to learn those same lessons the hard way (like this investor did). If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “It’s better to have someone who has a lot of experience working in their areas, rather than someone who is kind of good at it” Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theo has walked us through the entire apartment syndication process in previous episodes. You can find all of those at SyndicationSchool.com. Now we will begin to discuss miscellaneous, tips and lessons that the team has learned over the years. We’ll share stories from Ashcroft Capital (Joe’s investment company with his business partner Frank Roessler), guests of The Best Ever Show, and Joe and Theo’s own experience. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “Once your talking to investors, you can leverage the experience”  Original Blog Post: https://joefairless.com/3-ways-raise-1mm-1st-apartment-syndication/  Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Erin is here today to help us understand the different laws and restrictions that some areas are placing on STR’s. Along with her team, they help investors find, buy, and run legal short term rental properties. You may be surprised by how many different regulations and laws exist that investors may not know about until it is too late. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “If you want to be serious about this, don’t treat it as a hobby” - Erin Spradlin  Erin Spradlin Real Estate Background: Co-owner and broker of James Carlson Real Estate They focus on setting people up with legal Airbnbs to cover their mortgage or reduce it significantly Erin also focuses on female investors, they’ve done a BiggerPockets video series, and she is a blogger for on BP Based in Denver, CO Say hi to her at https://www.jamescarlsonrealestate.com/  Best Ever Book: Long Distance Investing Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taxes are a major expense for real estate investors, and Robert is here to explain some of the taxes that we may not know about, and how to save money on those taxes. In the short term rental area, there are lodging taxes. Much of the conversation focuses on that today. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “A lot of people think since they’re not running a hotel that the lodging tax doesn’t apply to them” - Robert Stephens Robert Stephens Real Estate Background: Co-founder of Avalara MyLodgeTax (formerly HotSpot Tax), formed in 2002 out of his own necessity to understand and manage compliance with his rental property. Helps homeowners, hotel operators, and other businesses with short term lodging tax regulations  Based in Englewood, CO Say hi to him at https://www.avalara.com Best Ever Book: The Big Short Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael is here today to tell us more about short term rentals. We’ll hear three different ways to make money from short term rentals. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “Here is how I will mitigate all these risks” - Michael Sjogren Michael Sjogren Real Estate Background: Michael and his wife Krysten are the founders of Occupied, LLC, a short-term rental investment and management company They have a portfolio of six properties across three markets and are actively expanding across the northeast Recently launched an education platform called Short Term Rental Secrets to help real estate investors launch their own STR business Based in Boston, MA Say hi to him at https://www.occupiednow.com/  Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many new real estate investors, and even seasoned ones, would love to do 18 deals in 18 months. We’ll hear how dave was able to do exactly that in this episode. We’ll also hear how Dave helps other investors raise capital.  If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “Start with your sphere of influence” - Dave Dubeau Dave Dubeau Real Estate Background: Real estate investor, best selling author and a trainer and consultant Began his real estate investing career in 2003 doing 18 deals in 18 months Has done rent-to-own deals and now invests in apartment buildings Helps real estate entrepreneurs grow their portfolios Based in British Columbia, Canada Say hi to him at https://davedubeau.com Best Ever Book: Dream 100 Book by Dana Derricks  Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe and Theo are back in the studio today to tell us about the best things they learned last week. Specifically, Joe will share his lessons from three interview guests, and Theo will offer a little bit of follow up to Joe’s thoughts. The lessons we’ll be hearing about are from Joe’s interviews with Don Wenner, Jeffrey Gitomer, and Collin Schwartz. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “If Henry Ford asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse” Free Document: http://bit.ly/dealfindingtracker Due Diligence Resource Joe referenced: https://joefairless.com/ultimate-guide-performing-due-diligence-apartment-building/ Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve looked at all the factors to help us decide if we should sell, and decided that it is time to sell our first apartment community. Now what is the process to sell it? Theo explains our 8 step process for selling your apartment deal. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “You might have some sort of prepayment penalty” Free Document: http://bit.ly/letterofdisposition Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that we’ve completed the business cycle with our apartment syndication deal, is it time to sell? Theo will cover what you need to look into with each deal before making that decision. It may make sense sometimes to sell early, other times it won’t. How do you know when is the best time? Hit play to find out. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “You never want to get forced to sell” Free Document: http://bit.ly/letterofdisposition Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to tenantscreening.com and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices