Best of 2025 Replay: AI In Acquisitions ft. Paul Hopkins, Perry Zheng, Lance Pederson and Bo Barron

The Best Ever CRE Show

Best Ever CRE

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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*Previously aired episode* Joe Fairless interviews AI-savvy investors Paul Hopkins, Perry Zheng, Lance Pederson, and Bo Barron to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping commercial real estate acquisitions. The panel shares practical tools—like Google’s Notebook LM, ChatGPT, AI21, and Claude—and strategies for deal analysis, underwriting, parsing PDFs, and even creating custom GPTs to automate offering memorandum reviews. They discuss how AI streamlines market research, transforms spreadsheets into semantic data, and helps underwrite deals more accurately and efficiently, while also acknowledging its limits in replacing human decision-making and deal sourcing relationships. Paul Hopkins COO and Partner ⁠https://cpicapital.ca/⁠ Perry Zheng Founder and CEO ⁠https://www.cashflowportal.com/⁠ Lance Pederson CEO and Co-Founder ⁠https://www.passiveadvantage.com/⁠ Bo Barron CEO ⁠https://barroncommercial.com/ Join us at Best Ever Conference 2026! Find more info at: https://www.besteverconference.com/ Join the Best Ever Community The Best Ever Community is live and growing - and we want serious commercial real estate investors like you inside. It’s free to join, but you must apply and meet the criteria. Connect with top operators, LPs, GPs, and more, get real insights, and be part of a curated network built to help you grow. Apply now at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠www.bestevercommunity.com⁠⁠ Podcast production done by⁠ ⁠Outlier Audio⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	All right. Well, best ever listeners, how you doing?
0:33.0	This is Joe Fairless with the Best Ever Multifamily syndication show, but here's a wrinkle.
0:39.2	This isn't going to be just multifamily today. This is going to be commercial real estate.
0:44.9	And the reason why is we're doing a special segment. I'm a huge proponent of AI. And I think we are in the very early stages. If it's a nine-ending game,
0:57.7	I think we're in like the bottom of the first, maybe the top of the second. And if we're not
1:04.1	using AI in our business, then that's a competitive advantage we're not capitalizing on. And with us today, we have four
1:14.4	experts who are using AI in the acquisition of commercial real estate properties. And the
1:24.4	purpose of today's episode is to share with you practical tips for how you could use
1:32.4	AI when finding and underwriting commercial real estate deals.
1:39.9	So that's the outcome.
1:42.2	By the time you're done, listen to this, you should have some notes on some tools that you can use for AI finding deals and perhaps some nuances of how to do it with different prompts and just the process that some individuals on this show use.
2:02.0	So that's the premise.
2:04.2	That's the outcome.
2:05.7	With us today and no particular order, just how I ended up right in the names.
2:10.2	Paul Hopkins first, Directive Acquisition, CPI Capital, based in Denver, Colorado.
2:16.6	We got Lance Peterson, co-founder of Passiveadvantage.com, based in
2:22.4	Houston, Texas. Perry Zang, founder of Cashflow Portal, based in Seattle, Washington, and
2:28.6	Bo Barron. He's got a Kentucky basketball behind them. You can't see it right now, though.
2:33.6	He's covering it was pretty cool about there it is.
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