Breaking Into Self Storage Investing with Brian and Kelly Saari
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host, AJ Osborne!
You know those kinds of people you meet that you immediately know they’re just great and genuine people? Well, our guests today are just that. I’m excited to introduce you all to Brian and Kelly Saari.
Through and through, this episode is packed with so much value, I can’t even tell you… How Brian and Kelly have gone from square one, step by step through the process to where they are today is absolutely incredible. They’re the absolute epitome of combining skills with resources and doing what it takes to make huge moves and make huge accomplishments.
Brian and Kelly share how they broke into the self-storage investing world from the buying of the land to them actually building their own storage facility… not with a builder… on their own. This is just one example of their go-getter mentality, their will, and their determination to simply get things done and to make things happen.
Outside of the physical assets themselves, we talk about how Brian and Kelly got started and some of the creative ways they went about getting their self-storage investment portfolio up and running. In addition to this, we talk about management tips, how to understand supply and demand in third-tier markets, and how to build a business that allows you the time and freedom that you’re looking for.
Now I’m just going to shut up and let you guys get to it because this is such an awesome episode. Enjoy, take notes, and listen in on this awesome journey that Brian and Kelly are on.
Thanks everybody!
AJ
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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. |
| 0:48.5 | What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the self-storage income podcast. Today, we've got |
| 0:53.1 | Kelly and Brian, and I'm super |
| 0:54.9 | excited to jump into this because, like, I could not give you a better example of somebody |
| 0:59.7 | just figuring it out, you know, putting every little building block in place that they need to |
| 1:04.9 | build the, you know, the, literally, I'm saying this like figuratively, but they did it literally. I mean, |
| 1:12.8 | they literally built their own facilities, different things like that. It's such an amazing |
| 1:16.1 | story of what they've done, how they've structured building their self-storage portfolio, |
| 1:21.6 | what they're doing, where they're going, all of that stuff. But before we do that, before you |
| 1:25.5 | guys jump into this episode, Kelly Bryan, we're just incredible people, super lucky to have them on the podcast and get to know them a little |
| 1:31.7 | bit here today, which was really, really exciting. But before we get into any of that, |
| 1:35.4 | I wanted to give you a huge shout out to Live Oak Bank and Janice International. Janice |
| 1:39.9 | International has amazing opportunities for everybody that are in the self-storage world realm |
| 1:46.8 | that are either acquiring or you're building, whatever it is. |
| 1:49.9 | They've got solutions for you guys to bring your old facilities up to today's standards, |
| 1:55.2 | or if you want to just build a facility, they've got really, really awesome solutions |
| 1:59.9 | and products and materials for you guys to utilize. |
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