Because it's easy to get intimidated. You're like, all right, we're going after this huge list of leads. Where do we start? We need these systems. Everything's got to be perfect. But that wasn't the case. It was like, all right, what are the activities that our acquisitions team needs to be doing to start getting that ball rolling? As long as we can say you're doing the right things, as long as our team is doing the right things, we know that it'll come. But it's really frustrating when you're like, I'm doing the right things. But we're now five, six months and I don't have a deal. It takes time to get that flywheel to move. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the self-storage income podcast. My name is Yen and I am the producer of this podcast. Let me just hop on here

and say, thanks for listening. We really appreciate those of you who are tuning in every week and

are leaving us the reviews and the comments. Y'all are awesome. In this episode, we have a guest

that you might actually have heard before here on the podcast. He's a returning guest. We're going to

be talking with Brian, our head of acquisitions here at Cedar Creek.

He helps us find deals and acquire them and put them under contract.

And he knows all about acquisition, which is what we're talking about today, how to acquire,

what are some of the different things that you might consider while starting out, what are

some of the pitfalls and the mistakes that you can avoid?

There is a lot of value here in this episode because this is something we do day in and day out.

And even though we'll be talking about acquiring new facilities and new properties,

if you're thinking about doing the same thing, you really need somebody who's an expert in this field

and is familiar with self-storage construction specifically. And that's why we work

with forge building company. We talk about them here on the podcast all the time. And after we hired them

for one deal, they saved us like a few hundred thousand dollars just on that. And after that,

we're like, all right, we got to have them back. Like, we want them to do this to every single one of our deals.

So if you haven't heard of Forge, you should definitely check them out.

We're actually offering an exclusive consultation and site layout completely free for our listeners here on the podcast.

I'll be sure to leave a link in the show notes.

But without further ado, let's go ahead and get started.

No matter what business or industry you're in,

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