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Commercial Real Estate School

The lessons your brokerage never gave you.

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Cap Rates, Sale-Leasebacks, and Where 1031 Capital Is Flowing in 2026

Karly Iacono is a Senior Vice President at CBRE in Saddle Brook, NJ, and one of the most active voices in net lease investing. She's spent years building an investor education platform through her podcast Commercial Real Estate Now while closing deals across the full NNN spectrum — from QSR acquisitions to eight-figure corporate sale-leasebacks. In this episode, Kyle and Karly cover: What net…

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The CRE Coaching Playbook: What 4,200 Brokers Have in Common

The average commercial real estate broker in the United States earns $132,000 in gross commission income. Massimo Group one-on-one coaching clients average $857,000. That is the 7x gap and in this episode, Rod Santomassimo breaks down exactly where it comes from. Rod is the founder and president of the Massimo Group, the number one commercial real estate broker coaching and consulting organization…

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Why Your Brokerage Is Losing Money on Its Top Producers

Joe Killinger has spent over 30 years in real estate — rehabbing SoCal houses he was literally living inside of, running real estate auctions with unpublished reserves that almost got him swung at by angry buyers, getting laid off, laying his partner off, building three companies to over $5M in revenue inside 18 months. He's done $950M in transactions across more than 6,500 assets. But the move…

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Deep Research, Skills, and the AI Stack for Brokers

Topher Stephenson has spent his career at the intersection of technology and commercial real estate, from in-house property marketing to brokerage operations to building one of the most actively used AI learning communities in the industry. As founder of CRE AI Studio and the CRE AI Studio Newsletter (formerly chatCRE), Topher has built a community of hundreds of CRE pros who actually want to…

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100 Customers. Zero Capital. One Tweet.

Pat Carino is VP of Development at NRP Group, one of the largest multifamily developers in the country, operating across more than a dozen states. He's also the founder of Dealnav, a simple map-based deal-tracking platform built for real estate operators who don't want a CRM with 47 tabs they'll never open. If you're a broker tracking deals in Excel, a developer running a market in Google My Maps,…

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Legacy Is Not What You Leave Behind

Gino Barbaro was shoveling snow outside his restaurant at midnight — no gloves, no customers, no paycheck, when he looked up and saw a light on in the apartment above. His mother was home, asleep, getting paid. He wasn't. That was the moment. From that parking lot, Gino went on to co-found the Jake and Gino platform, scale over 1,500 multifamily units in under five years, and transact north of…

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"The Prescription" | Ken Ashley on Breaking Into CRE

Ken Ashley has spent 30 years as a top producer at Cushman & Wakefield, but his real legacy is the people he's built. As founder of CREi Summit and now bestselling author of The Prescription , Ken has spent decades writing custom 6–8 step action plans for aspiring brokers, signing them, and saying "call me in 90 days." Less than 5% ever did. Now he's written the book so no one has an excuse. In…

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Landing $3M Deal From LinkedIn?

In this series, Kyle sits down with Carson Baird, an industrial broker from Southwest Florida, to uncover the hidden pitfalls in industrial deals. They discuss how overlooked zoning details and unexpected easements can derail transactions, and share strategies to navigate these challenges. Carson offers insights on managing client expectations, leveraging local relationships, and using technology…

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Are You Really Tracking Your Calls?

In this series, Kyle sits down with Carson Baird, an industrial broker from Southwest Florida, to uncover the hidden pitfalls in industrial deals. They discuss how overlooked zoning details and unexpected easements can derail transactions, and share strategies to navigate these challenges. Carson offers insights on managing client expectations, leveraging local relationships, and using technology…

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Balancing Client Expectations vs Market Reality

In this series, Kyle sits down with Carson Baird, an industrial broker from Southwest Florida, to uncover the hidden pitfalls in industrial deals. They discuss how overlooked zoning details and unexpected easements can derail transactions, and share strategies to navigate these challenges. Carson offers insights on managing client expectations, leveraging local relationships, and using technology…

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