Commercial Real Estate Investing From A-Z

About Commercial Real Estate Investing From A-Z

Getting started with Commercial Real Estate Investing, or an experienced investor? This is a weekly podcast on the steps that I take to make my Commercial Real Estate investments (Retail, Office, Self Storage, etc) including successes and lessons learned. We cover advanced techniques for purchasing, operating, and exiting your properties, from the best people in the industry. You will learn everything you need to know about real estate investing. We are based in San Francisco / Silicon Valley and also cover how technology affects Commercial Real Estate, and how you can stay ahead of the game. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/best-commercial-retail-real-estate-investing-advice-ever/support (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/best-commercial-retail-real-estate-investing-advice-ever/support)

Publisher

Steffany Boldrini

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Mar 2019

Latest episode

5 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

42 of 230 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How to Pivot in Real Estate? Lessons Leaned in The Last Year

   How to decide what to invest in next? Is it ok to pivot to another asset class in real estate? How to look for and create opportunities where disaster strikes, and lessons learned in the real estate business over the last year. Bronson Hill, Managing Member at Bronson Equity, shares his insights. Bronson Hill Bronson Equity Text Cashflow to 33777 to get his Favorite Cashflow Investments Guide Join our investor club here: www.montecarlorei.com/investors (https://montecarlorei.com/investors/)

2. 

   20 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   100% Bonus Depreciation & Other Tax Benefits in Real Estate

   Can you take 100% bonus depreciation on parts of your property? What is the difference between accelerated depreciation and bonus depreciation? What are some other things you may now know to depreciate even more in real estate? Tom Brodie from CSSI shares his insights. Tom Brodie CSSI - Cost Segregation Services (713) 906-3710 tom.brodie@cssiservices.com (mailto:tom.brodie@cssiservices.com) www.CSSIServices.com/tom-brodie (https://cssiservices.com/tom-brodie)

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   6 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   How I Made 25% IRR on My Worst Investment!

   How did I make money on my first and worst investment? I’m going to be breaking down my first and worst investment and how I ended up making money on it and getting a free storage facility even after closing the business for 2 years. Read this entire interview here: https://tinyurl.com/mr22f6mx (https://tinyurl.com/mr22f6mx) Top lessons learned from this experience: - Don’t ever get into an asset class that you know nothing about without first going to industry specific events, building relationships, asking questions, and getting an advisor to help you analyze and purchase your first deal. - Buying portfolios can be a great thing, you get multiple properties at a discounted rate, and after you buy them, you split them up and sell a few at market price, while keeping the others. - This is not really related to car washes, but I have heard that the first offer you get is typically the highest offer you will get, and it turned out to be true in this case. When I decided to sell them while they were still open, we got an offer that was higher than the one that we ended up taking, but I turned it down because at that time the properties were not distressed and our sales price was based on actual NOI. However, it confirmed this theory that the first offer that you get is typically the highest offer you will get. - Work with a broker that exclusively sells that specific asset class, and follow up with them on a regular basis to make sure you and your properties are on top of their mind. I’m a believer in showing up and following up because people easily forget about you, whether you are selling or buying a property, you need to keep people accountable. This is not to say that the broker wasn’t working on them, but it was to keep reminding her that I was really interested in selling them. My follow ups were about once a month/once every other month. - There’s a known saying in real estate that “You make money when you buy”. And because I got these properties at a great price, and even though the deal was a complete failure, that is another reason why this worked out. Proving another real estate theory to be true. Three years after purchasing these properties I decided that it’s not worth my time to try to fix it, and that I’d put the car washes up for sale, and close them completely. Not knowing when I was going to be able to sell them. I decided to take the hit on the mortgage payments until I sold them because my time was not worth the time that I was spending trying to solve that problem. The mortgage payments were cheaper than my time. The car washes stayed closed for two full years. Last year I managed to sell one of them, and this year I sold the remaining two, two years after completely closing them. I hope that you can learn from my lessons learned, so that you don’t have to make the same mistakes that I made. To better investments! www.montecarlorei.com/investors (https://www.montecarlorei.com/investors)

Inside a recent episode

How to Pivot in Real Estate? Lessons Leaned in The Last Year

Published 5 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So this is something that's typically a lower risk position. So we like first position or senior debt. I mean, there's no other, you know, creditors below that. It's just, hey, this is what it is. If it's low leverage, it's even better, 50, 60 % loan to value. That makes it a very, very safe real estate backed asset that you're basically becoming the bank or maybe it's a pool of loans to, you know, you're basically providing lending for people buying properties. And so we like that. We like oil and gas for the cash flow benefits. We also actually, one thing we love talking about is private businesses. […]

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