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05/19/2026

Most operators are obsessed with scale. Justin Spillers, co-founder of Real Estate Alpha, is obsessed with doing what doesn't scale.
He calls it "the unscalable work." It's the question he challenges his entire team with every day:

What's the option no one else is willing to do?

Here's one example that's become a real competitive advantage:

Before every showing, his leasing managers walk the unit, record a selfie video calling the prospect by name, point out what just got finished, and text it to them that morning.

"Hey, I'm in your unit right now. It looks amazing. I'm here waiting for you."

That's the standard.
And it doesn't stop at leasing.

Every touchpoint where most operators cut corners becomes an opportunity Real Estate Alpha treats as a differentiator.

Show-up rates go up. Leases get signed faster. And a culture gets built around doing the hard, time-consuming things that compound over time.

For passive investors, this is what it actually looks like when someone takes your capital seriously.

Allocation is almost full. First come, first served. Accredited investors only.

✅ 12% Fixed (15-19% Effective)
✅ Defer All Taxes For Up to 9 Years
✅ 90-Day Liquidity after 1 Year
✅ Protected by 700+ Units

▶️ Access the fund: realestatealpha.io/bec-invest

Another great week of conversations on the Best Ever CRE Show 🎙️Last week we sat down with:👤 Leo Young👤 Anna Kelley👤 Geo...
05/18/2026

Another great week of conversations on the Best Ever CRE Show 🎙️

Last week we sat down with:
👤 Leo Young
👤 Anna Kelley
👤 George Salas
👤 Chris Reece
👤 Jake Heller

Which episode are you adding to your queue? Drop it in the comments 👇

Listen to all episodes now on Apple and Spotify.

Misconceptions can shape how retirement capital is viewed in private real estate. Myth: Retirement funds are too comple...
05/13/2026

Misconceptions can shape how retirement capital is viewed in private real estate.

Myth: Retirement funds are too complex for private real estate investing.

Reality: Custodians and structured onboarding processes are designed to help investors participate using self-directed accounts. This can make it easier to incorporate retirement capital into a raise.

In practice, this often includes defined workflows for account setup, funding, and document processing, along with dedicated support throughout the transaction. For sponsors, that structure can help reduce friction and create a more consistent experience for investors using retirement funds.

Learn how retirement capital fits into private real estate investing
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05/12/2026

Every investor gets drawn in by the upside.

But the best operators are the ones who've already planned for the worst.

Justin, co-founder of Real Estate Alpha, was only willing to open the fund to outside investors because of one thing: a bulletproof Black Swan plan.

His parents were the fund's first investors. He wasn't going to risk their retirement without a clear answer to the hardest question in real estate: “What happens if everything goes wrong?”

Here's what that answer looks like across 700+ occupied units in Ohio:
✔️ Staff overheads cut by 90% overnight
✔️ Operations scaled back to a lean 6-person core team
✔️ Every bank, every investor, still getting paid
✔️ Cash flow maintained. Lights on. Business intact.

Two years ago, Justin and fellow co-founder Brandon ran 300 units with just four people. They've done it before. They can do it again. That's not a theory, that's a tested fallback.

Right now, they're scaling hard. 60+ person team, fully vertically integrated, heavy value-add turns in-house. But if the world flips upside down, they know exactly which levers to pull.

This is the kind of operator discipline that protects investor capital when markets get ugly.

Real Estate Alpha is currently raising and allocations for this round are almost full.

View the full details and book your 15-minute discovery call before the window closes 👇
realestatealpha.io/bec-invest

05/09/2026

Most operators start raising capital when the deal is ready.

That’s why they struggle.

The ones consistently raising capital are not better at deals.

They run a system.
They build investor relationships before they need them.
They create clarity around how they operate.
They prepare in advance.

By the time a deal is live, they are converting interest, not creating it.

Fundraising is a skill.

Download the framework here: https://www.marcindrozdz.ca/optin-be2026?utm_source=sm11

05/06/2026

What does it really take to stay ahead in real estate?

Justin Spillers, co-founder of Real Estate Alpha, turns a vacant unit in 7 days and has leases signed before even owning the property.

Read that again.

While other operators are still scheduling contractors post-closing, Justin's team has already renovated, listed, and signed leases. The clock starts before the ink dries.

One simple system. 2+ months gained.

Most passive investors never see what's happening inside the operations behind their investment. They wire money and hope.

What Justin shared at the Best Ever Conference’s Pitch Slam 2026 was a masterclass in why that's not good enough, and what elite ex*****on actually looks like.

The level of operational discipline he's built at Real Estate Alpha is rare. And in a market that punishes complacency, rare matters.

If this is the standard of operator you want managing your capital…

Visit the link below to get all the details:

▶️ Access the fund: realestatealpha.io/bec-invest

✅ 12% Fixed (15-19% Effective)
✅ Defer All Taxes For Up to 9 Years
✅ 90-Day Liquidity after 1 Year
✅ Protected by 700+ Units

Allocation is almost full. First come, first served. Accredited investors only.

If you've been trying to piece together a compliant capital raising business on your own — this is the training you've b...
05/06/2026

If you've been trying to piece together a compliant capital raising business on your own — this is the training you've been waiting for. 👇

Tomorrow, May 7 at 1pm ET, securities attorney Seth Bradley is walking through the exact system for building a Fund of Funds from the ground up — legal structure, fund economics, investor qualification, and deal access — all in one place.Seth has powered $3B+ in capital raised across 750+ Fund of Funds.

He knows exactly how to do this correctly — and tomorrow he's showing you how.

Free to attend. Register here: https://www.bestevercre.com/webinars/tribevest-webinar

The most honest signal in private CRE isn't what investors say they're bullish on. It's where they actually wire money.A...
05/05/2026

The most honest signal in private CRE isn't what investors say they're bullish on. It's where they actually wire money.

A new fundraising analysis from Agora — drawn from more than 1,000 real estate investment firms, 150,000+ investors, and $300 billion in AUM — maps exactly where capital moved in 2025. The picture is geographically concentrated, asset-class specific, and increasingly Southeast-heavy in ways that accelerated sharply from the prior year.The Southeast's dominance is the headline finding. The region's share of total returns jumped from 28.57% in 2024 to 40.51% in 2025 — a 12-percentage-point swing in a single year.

FL led all states at 18.14% of capital contributions and 10.72% of total investor returns. TX followed at 11.32% of contributions. Together the top 10 states captured 64.36% of total investments and 66.92% of total returns. The concentration isn't new — but the pace at which it accelerated in 2025 is.

The multifamily sector dominated as expected, capturing 48.61% of all capital raised and generating 40.31% of total returns. But the industrial story is the one worth paying closer attention to. The industrial sector — which includes self-storage — produced 22.44% of total returns despite representing just 2.94% of capital raised. That's the sharpest return-to-capital ratio in the entire dataset. Industrial's share of quarterly returns climbed from 8.05% in Q1 to 35.98% in Q4, nearly matching the multifamily sector by year-end — a trajectory that was almost entirely invisible at the start of the year.

The 2026 outlook adds momentum to both trends. A CBRE survey finds 74% of investors plan to buy more CRE assets than last year, with 55% increasing capital allocations — up from 48% in 2025. Debt funds now account for 37% of closings, expanding the financing toolkit for GPs in an environment where bank lending remains constrained. Multifamily rent growth is projected at 2%, with higher gains concentrated in FL and TX — the same two states already capturing the largest share of capital.

For GPs raising in 2026, the data sets a clear benchmark. Conviction capital is concentrating in fewer places and around fewer asset classes. The operators and markets already aligned with those flows have a structural advantage heading into the back half of the year — and the ones still pitching deals outside that geography and asset class mix are swimming against a current that got significantly stronger in 2025.

We break down data like this every week in the Best Ever CRE newsletter — free for 46,000+ investors.
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How returns are taxed can shape how investors evaluate opportunities. When investors participate through self-directed I...
05/05/2026

How returns are taxed can shape how investors evaluate opportunities.

When investors participate through self-directed IRAs, their earnings may grow tax-deferred or tax-free depending on the account type. That distinction can influence how they evaluate net returns compared to taxable investments.

For sponsors, understanding this dynamic can help frame conversations with investors using retirement funds as part of the raise.

Learn how retirement capital fits into your raise – https://eqtytrst.co/3Oyenhr

Another great week of conversations on the Best Ever CRE Show 🎙️Last week we sat down with:👤 Brent Neely👤 John McNellis👤...
05/04/2026

Another great week of conversations on the Best Ever CRE Show 🎙️

Last week we sat down with:
👤 Brent Neely
👤 John McNellis
👤 John Chang
👤 Fred Moskowitz

Which episode are you adding to your queue? Drop it in the comments 👇
Listen to all episodes now on Apple and Spotify.

While some cities are banning self-storage development outright, a different story is unfolding in secondary metros acro...
05/01/2026

While some cities are banning self-storage development outright, a different story is unfolding in secondary metros across the South and West — and the data from Yardi Matrix's 2026 emerging markets ranking makes the opportunity hard to ignore.

FL dominates the top two spots. Jacksonville claims No. 1 after rising from second last year, with a development pipeline representing 15.4% of existing inventory and 31 facilities either under construction or planned. Sarasota-Cape Coral holds second with the largest storage footprint on the entire list — 22.8M SF net rentable — and a pipeline equal to 30.8% of existing stock. Both metros sit above the national average of 7.8 net rentable SF per capita, yet construction activity remains robust because demand keeps absorbing it.

Savannah-Hilton Head comes in third, powered by port-driven economic growth — the Port of Savannah handled 5.7 million TEUs in 2025, up 2.6% YoY. North Central FL lands fourth, with Ocala topping U-Haul's Growth Index for the third consecutive year. Nashville rounds out the top five with a 2.9% unemployment rate and annualized rent growth of 0.8%, outpacing the national 0.3% gain.

The second half of the list — Boise, Eugene, Charleston, Reno, and the Appalachian region — tells a consistent story: in-migration and affordability are driving demand in places where storage infrastructure is still catching up. Appalachian leads the entire list on rent growth at 3.6% YoY. Charleston follows at 2.6%, backed by a No. 7 ranking on U-Haul's 2025 Growth Index.

Nationally, the macro picture has improved. Advertised street rates rose 0.3% YoY as of December 2025 — a meaningful shift from the 2.3% decline recorded a year earlier. With 54.2M SF under construction and 43.6M SF projected to deliver by year-end, supply is active. But in these ten markets, population movement has proven consistent enough to absorb it.

The takeaway for investors: the debate over storage bans is real and worth tracking. But it's mostly a gateway-market story. In secondary metros where people are still arriving faster than infrastructure can keep up, the development window is open — and the demand signal is as reliable as it gets in this sector.

We break down data like this every week in the Best Ever CRE newsletter — free for 46,000+ investors.

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