251. Getting into Self Storage Investments at 50 Years Old (MASSIVE Success!) w/Russell Nersesov
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Think you’re too late in the game to get into self storage investments? Feel like you can’t give up that career you took decades to build to take a shot at achieving financial freedom? Today’s guest is about to fire you up! At age fifty, he took a giant leap, quitting his chiropractor practice of over twenty years to go head-first into real estate investing. In just four years, he was able to buy six self storage investments, and he’s not stopping anytime soon. And if you feel like your career’s clock is ticking, and self storage could be your way out, Russell Nersesov is the guy to listen to.
In today’s show, Russell talks about leaving his stable career to pursue something else, how he’s finding deals even in today’s tough market, why he makes offers on everything that could work for his portfolio and the two things EVERY investor should be looking for when trying to find self storage investments.
Russell even flips the interview, getting AJ’s take on some of the most crucial questions self storage investors are wondering about. You’ll hear why brokers are finally starting to get “realistic” with their prices, the “readjustment period” sellers are going through, and how to have the confidence to buy when everyone is telling you to wait instead (BIG mistake!).
What you’ll learn in today’s show:
- How to change your career later in life and start investing in self storage today
- Why Russell invests in small markets with low competition and high upside
- Russell’s secret to getting more deals and how he bought six facilities in just four years!
- How Russell remote manages his facilities while achieving an incredibly high occupancy rate
- The changing self storage market and why the past four years have been like nothing we’ve ever experienced
- Buying during down times and how to be greedy when everyone else is fearful
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You went from 50 to 54 with six facilities. |
| 0:03.0 | Yes. |
| 0:04.0 | That's incredible. |
| 0:05.0 | You, 50 to before you were 55, you're going to probably own, you know, 10. |
| 0:09.0 | You'll probably have bought 10 plus by the time you're 55. |
| 0:12.0 | That's the goal. |
| 0:13.0 | That is absolutely amazing. |
| 0:15.0 | We are making offers on everything. |
| 0:18.0 | We are making offers on everything that we feel works for us. Just go do it. Go do it. |
| 0:23.6 | Don't wait. Don't think that you need to know everything about it because you'll never going to |
| 0:27.7 | know everything about it. Find an excuse how to do. Just go and do it. Go buy your first facility. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome everybody to self-storage income. |
| 0:41.7 | And today is going to be a great podcast because I have an interview and I'm really excited to bring Russell on. |
| 0:51.2 | He is the owner and founder of Safe Storage USA and has such a fascinating background. |
| 0:59.0 | I love the interviews. As a lot of you know, they are not only insightful, but I love the change |
| 1:05.8 | in perspective. So these are my favorite podcasts to do. So with that, Russell, how's it going, man? Welcome. |
| 1:13.8 | Hey, man. Thank you. Thank you for being here. And super excited to be here, man. Appreciate it. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm really, you know, excited that you accepted. You know, you're in our inner circle. And so we get a talk and we obviously see each other every week or every other week. |
| 1:32.2 | But, you know, you have a very interesting background. |
| 1:37.2 | You've done a lot. |
| 1:39.2 | And I think you have a very interesting career change that was wildly different than what you were |
| 1:47.5 | planning on doing. So I'm really excited to dive into those things. So thanks for coming on. |
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