Absolute Financial Freedom Through Self Storage (Your Self Storage Financial Freedom Plan)
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage income podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne!
Why are you interested in self storage? What does success look like to you when you envision your future in self storage? How do you define success in self storage and how will you achieve that? Are your self storage investing goals truly defined?
These are all questions that you should have an answer to. After all, these questions are your road map. We have to know where we’re going and how we’re going to get there. Without knowing and understanding these fundamentals, we can’t plan or execute on our goals at all.
That’s why today, I wanted to jump into defining what real freedom through self storage really is, ways you can get there, and what you need to be thinking about today to get started off right.
We hear a lot about how people want to be “financially free” and this very well may be you and why you’re looking at self storage investing. But what is “financially free” exactly?
Is it covering the cost of living? Allowing you to do anything you want at any point in time? Massive generational wealth? Have you even stopped to analyze what financial freedom is or would mean to you and how much income you would need to achieve that goal?
And then the big question - will what you’re doing, or what you have planned actually get you to where you want to be?
I have seen and talked to a TON of people who have not clearly defined all of these questions. It’s amazing to see people’s wheels start to turn once they actually start diving into the granular details of these vague and limited goals they’ve felt like they’ve had to set for themselves. It's interesting to see that we all so often make goals for ourselves that we don’t even really understand.
We’re going to dive into these questions today and we’re going to talk about freedom through self storage and what that means. Now let’s get some answers to these massive questions!
What does freedom mean to you? Be sure to write me and let me know!
Thanks for listening everybody,
AJ
Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.
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| 0:00.0 | Looking to create wealth and income through high cash flowing real estate, self-storage is the fastest growing and the newest real estate asset that has outperformed all others. |
| 0:10.0 | What's it secret? |
| 0:11.0 | I'm A.J. Osborne and with over a million square feet that we have built, acquired, expanded, and even converted big box stores, |
| 0:19.0 | from small third-tier markets to large hundred plus thousand square foot facilities, we have seen it all. |
| 0:25.7 | This is the podcast that we're going to discuss and bring on the best investors and operators in the nation to show you how to create wealth and income with self storage. |
| 0:36.9 | Welcome to self Storage Income. |
| 0:38.9 | Welcome to Self Storage Income. Welcome to Self Storage Income, the podcast where we get to talk about how self-storage can change your |
| 0:56.7 | life, make you financially free, build wealth and income. And really, this podcast is getting at |
| 1:05.6 | the heart of it. It's getting at the heart of why we invest, the heart of the whole purpose of owning real estate, |
| 1:13.6 | the idea of becoming financially free, what that means, steps to get there, and really how to do that in self-storage, and, you know, working backwards from that planning, all of those really, really important topics, not just |
| 1:28.3 | for people starting out, but for everybody in general, how you focus, how you plan, and everything |
| 1:35.8 | in between. |
| 1:36.5 | I mean, that's the hard part, right? |
| 1:38.3 | I mean, in any aspect of doing anything is where do you focus your time, your effort, |
| 1:43.2 | your energy, and at what points in time do you focus your time, your effort, your energy, and at what points in time |
| 1:45.5 | do you focus that time and effort and energy? And what do you focus that on to optimize your |
| 1:53.0 | ability to execute and scale? Because at the end of the day, we only have so much time, right? |
| 1:58.8 | Yeah. So this is really critical. This is one of those things |
| 2:01.9 | AJ and I were sitting here talking about, you know, what can we kick out to you guys? It's going to |
| 2:05.7 | provide a ton of value that can be related to storage. That can be related to people that are just |
| 2:10.8 | starting out. And this is what we came up with because this is just such a critical piece of |
| 2:15.7 | the puzzle and getting off on the right foot |
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