Welcome to the first edition of the Best Ever Conference Newsletter. Our mission is to create the best community for CRE investors, operators, and syndicators to share insights, connect, and make deals. And this newsletter is just another way to keep the BEC community connected all year round.

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Best Ever Hot Takes

🔥 Can Texas Get Even Hotter?: With more and more employers requiring employees to get back to work, cities like Dallas and Houston may just be the hot market you’re looking for.

📉 A “Record Collapse”: Following the fall of three major banks, regional banks initiated an unprecedented reduction in lending. A new report details the extent of the pullback.

🏠 Bottoming Out: Apartment sales volume has dropped 14.9% from last year — a 74% YOY decline — but it has shown signs of slowing.

💰 Preferred Equity Surge: Due to capital scarcity in multifamily, developers are turning to alternative funding like preferred equity, which is now drawing investors with its higher-than-average returns.

🏡 The Demise of Short-Term Rentals? With New York Local Law 18 now in effect, considered a “de facto ban” on Airbnb, are short-term rental investments better left to the early 2000s?

A Full Day of Learning and Networking Just for Passive Investors

We’re thrilled to announce that Left Field Investors is bringing their Infielder community, and knowledge, to the 2024 Best Ever Conference in Salt Lake City.

On April 9, they’ll have a full day of programming (plus happy hour) designed exclusively for passive investors looking to create financial freedom through passively investing in real assets that generate real cash flow.

It’s the perfect kick-off to the regular BEC programming, allowing passive investors a pressure-free arena to learn and network before exploring hundreds of operators and syndicators in the BEC marketplace. Discover all the benefits of attending BEC as a passive investor.

If you’re already a Left Field Investor Infielder, you can attend for free with any conference ticket, but you will need to let us know that you’re planning to attend by emailing us.

Not a part of the Infielder Community? You can join through us for just $99 (regularly $199). Email us and we’ll get you all set up.

What We’re Binging This Week

Economic Summit: Wondering what’s ahead for 2024? We had five CRE experts gather for a 90-minute rapid-fire discussion on everything from cap rates to politics. It was quite a show, filled with insights and some good banter. You can still get all the insights on-demand through the end of October.

Best Ever CRE Podcast: From Insurance Sales to Mobile Home Parks — How This Investor Built a $100 Million Portfolio in Two Years. Listen today.

Quick, pick up your copy of The Asset Mindset: A Special Forces Perspective for Achieving Success by Daniel Fielding. On October 31, the Best Ever Book Club is meeting up (virtually) for what’s sure to be a great discussion. Join the club here. 

After spending more than six years in the off-market single-family space, Jennifer Colacicco realized her portfolio was still not in a position to build and grow wealth.

Then she discovered commercial real estate…

Read more about Jennifer’s journey and how she went from single-family flipping to helping launch a fund and becoming a BEC ambassador.