240. How to Find GREAT Self Storage Deals in ANY Market
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re diving into one of the most frequent questions we get: how to find self storage deals.
We’ll share the five-step guide AJ uses to find self storage deals in 2024 and show YOU how to copy it so you can get your next home run off-market self storage deal. If you’re waiting for your first or next self storage facility, this is EXACTLY where to start!
You’ve heard us talk about buying and managing self storage facilities, but where do we even find the ones we want to buy? Unlike rental properties, there isn’t some mass listing site that shows every self storage facility for sale (although many companies have tried). Most self storage deals are done off-market or pre-listing through a broker, meaning that you never even have the chance to see the deals getting done.
If you want to learn the expert secrets on how we’re finding self storage deals in today’s highly competitive market, bring a pad and some paper and copy our strategy.
What you’ll learn in today’s show:
- How to find your first or next self storage investment, no matter what market you’re in
- Building your “buy box” and how to know what you want your first or next facility to look like
- The geographic “opportunities” that point to a solid self storage investing market
- How to “rank” the facilities in your market to see which has the highest profit potential
- The ONE thing you need to bring to EVERY broker in your area if you want self storage deals sent to YOU
- How long it could take for you to get your first self storage investment under contract
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| 0:00.0 | This works today and I'm going to walk through you the step by steps and every single person should do this because it is a methodical way to find not only the storage assets but the ones that are right for you. |
| 0:14.6 | Everyone that listens to this, if you go do that, you will buy a facility that is right for you. |
| 0:18.9 | That will be a great opportunity. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome everybody to self-storage income. |
| 0:36.7 | And we have got a podcast today that is here by popular demand, I guess you could say. |
| 0:39.2 | But it's a formatting more of my step by step to finding a storage deal. This has been one of the top. We had a podcast like this |
| 0:45.3 | it was a while ago. So we were just talking about we gave, how long ago was that that we gave like |
| 0:50.4 | those step by step kind of things? I mean, a year ago? I mean, yeah, at least a year ago, if not more. |
| 0:56.4 | I mean, it's been a while. |
| 0:57.4 | It's been a while. |
| 0:58.0 | Like you're talking, I mean, it's one of the most common things that we hear about, you know? |
| 1:00.9 | Like, really, how do you actually find the deal? |
| 1:04.5 | You know, what is the deal, how to find the deal, how to fund the deal, all those really key pieces, which I'm really excited to dive |
| 1:11.7 | into today because obviously when you guys first started, you had this process that you went through. |
| 1:16.4 | And we were talking before the podcast a little bit here and how you guys broke that down |
| 1:20.4 | initially when you were first starting out. So super excited to jump into it. When you guys |
| 1:26.0 | were starting out, you're looking at storage, |
| 1:28.0 | analyzing it. I mean, what did that process look like for you guys? |
| 1:31.0 | A lot of times now, people can get very complex and they can use a lot of data points |
| 1:36.8 | and they're trying to learn a lot from other people, which is good, right? Obviously, |
| 1:41.3 | that's why you're on the podcast. You have to listen to the podcast, everybody. But I think they can get too much information. And that information paralysis can start to kill them because then it becomes like, well, what's the best market? Well, what's this? What's that? And that's not how we determined it. And that's not how we determine it. It's not like we just say, |
| 2:01.8 | oh, well, let's look up and find the best markets and the best, you know, it doesn't quite work like |
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