The Cincinnati Mistake That Built a $2 Billion Company with Joe Fairless

About this episode

Joe Fairless shares his journey from starting with $30K and student loans to building a $2 billion multifamily syndication company.

Send us Fan Mail Joe Fairless built Ashcroft Capital into one of the most recognized multifamily syndicators in the country — $2B+ in assets, properties across the Sunbelt, and a vertically integrated management company. But he started with $30K, student loans, and an apartment in New York where one paycheck covered rent and the other covered everything else. In this episode, Joe gets candid about the deals that didn't work, the market conditions that are keeping multifamily investors in a ho...

People in this episode

Host: Ed Mathews

Guest: Joe Fairless

Topics covered

• multifamily syndication
• real estate investing
• entrepreneurship
• market conditions
• business growth

Keywords

• real estate
• investing
• multifamily
• syndication
• business
• entrepreneurship
• Cincinnati
• Ashcroft Capital

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ashcroft Capital

Places: Cincinnati, New York

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