242. Why Demand is Exploding for “Small Bay Industrial” Warehouses w/ Shea Lewis
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
One type of commercial real estate is seeing skyrocketing demand right now: small bay industrial. Haven’t heard of it? You’re not alone. But for investors like Shea Lewis, one of our Inner Circle students at Self Storage Income, this often underrated type of real estate investment gives him great returns, high demand, and rock-bottom vacancy. But what is small bay industrial investing, and why are so many businesses fighting for small bay space right now?
If you invest in self storage, or plan to, this episode may change your mind entirely. In it, Shea goes through what small bay industrial investing is, why it’s experiencing “crazy high demand” in 2024, the deals he’s doing TODAY, and why you should get into the warehousing space BEFORE everyone else learns about it. Plus, most of the headaches of self storage investing almost disappear once you enter into small bay industrial warehousing.
Want to invest in an asset that has locked-in revenue for YEARS? What about one that has almost unlimited demand? Shea will tell you exactly what you need to know to get into the game and his buy box for buying these cash-flowing commercial assets that most investors overlook!
What you’ll learn in today’s show:
- Small bay industrial warehouses 101 and why they beat self storage in many ways
- The “crazy high demand” for warehouse space as small business growth explodes
- Shea’s exact buy box for finding and buying small bay industrial properties
- The markets that have the highest demand for these assets and signs of a phenomenal deal
- Small bay vs. self storage investing and the major headaches it completely avoids
- The one thing you NEED before you start investing in this asset class
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| 0:00.0 | That's probably the story. |
| 0:01.6 | I think that everybody should probably take away |
| 0:03.3 | the most from this podcast is that you want to go into an asset |
| 0:05.7 | where the demand is high because you have a margin of safety. |
| 0:09.6 | The demand for small bay is extremely high. |
| 0:19.5 | Welcome everybody to self-storage income. |
| 0:21.6 | And I am excited a little different of a podcast today. |
| 0:26.1 | Just in the terms of topics, we are obviously still talking about self-storage, but we're taking |
| 0:31.9 | another angle at it. |
| 0:33.3 | And we're going to be talking about like light industrial, small industrial bay things, which we have in a lot of our facilities and storage. So we're going to be talking about like light industrial small industrial bay things which we have |
| 0:38.9 | in a lot of our facilities and storage so we have storage facilities that literally 40% of it is this |
| 0:45.0 | it's a either a like-minded or kind of can be very much the same in the same product so we're |
| 0:51.2 | going to be talking about that and with with that said, I'm bringing on |
| 0:54.8 | Shea here, my buddy. How you doing, man? Life is good. Life is good. Thanks for having me on, AJ. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, appreciate you coming on. We're going to get into this. Why don't you tell everybody, though, |
| 1:06.3 | getting started here a little bit about yourself. And we can go can go obviously we've known each other for a while |
| 1:12.4 | so why don't you walk everybody through your yeah yeah absolutely all right so background on myself |
| 1:18.2 | um i grew up northwest uh subres of chicago i think i was pretty fortunate pretty lucky um i basically |
| 1:26.1 | you know married my high school sweetheart. We moved to Boston for a |
| 1:29.3 | little bit. My first career, which I absolutely love, and I think it's a great way to get started, |
| 1:34.5 | is I actually started selling data storage. So in the storage vein, but this time it was, |
| 1:39.9 | you know, terabytes instead of self-storage. So I did that for a good long while, but probably like a lot of the listeners, everybody |
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