FBF #593: Building Massive Wealth Through “Value-Add” Self Storage Investments -- With Kris Benson
Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow with Kevin Bupp
Kevin Bupp
4.9 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today's Flash Back Friday Episode is from Episode #246, which originally aired on September 10, 2019
In this episode of the Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow podcast, Kevin talks to real estate and self-storage expert, Kris Benson. Kris is a managing principle at Reliant Investments, a subsidiary of Reliant Real Estate Management, a top 30 operator in the self-storage space. Kris oversees investor relations and equity contributions for Reliant’s portfolio expansions.
In this podcast, Kris shares his inspiring decision to leave his job and pursue business in real estate. He explains how and he got into self-storage real estate and talks about advantages of getting into this asset class. Kris also talks about his involvement with Reliant real estate management and explains how and why he stays with the company.
Kevin and Kris dive further into self storage real estate and discuss the current market in comparison to other asset classes. Kris shares some perspective on the business and talks about value-adds, supply and demand, the risks, opportunities and other things to be considered when acquiring space for development. Kris also tackles marketability and pricing in this highly competitive and dynamic market.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's edition of Flashback Friday. |
| 0:05.0 | It's your opportunity to get some good review by listening to episodes from the past that Kevin is handpicked to help you along your investment journey. |
| 0:13.0 | If you like to partner with Kevin and join his team at Sunrise Capital Investors, head to Invest with Sunrise.com to learn more. |
| 0:20.0 | That's Invest with Sunrise.com. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:26.3 | Now, our guests for this week's show is real estate and self-storage expert Chris Benson. |
| 0:31.5 | Now, Chris is a managing principle with reliant investments, a subsidiary of reliant real estate |
| 0:36.8 | management, which is a top 30 operator |
| 0:39.2 | in the self-storage space. |
| 0:41.0 | Now, Chris spends his days overseeing investor relations as well as equity contributions |
| 0:45.3 | slated for Reliance Portfolios Expansion. |
| 0:48.7 | Now, in today's show, Chris and I are going to hit on a variety of topics, ranging |
| 0:52.0 | from where we are in the current real estate cycle, the pros and cons of raising capital via a deal-specific syndication versus a fund structure. |
| 1:00.6 | We're going to talk about vertically integrated management versus outsourcing. |
| 1:04.1 | We're going to talk about finding opportunities even in today's competitive environment. |
| 1:08.3 | And we're also going to chat about what value ad really means in the |
| 1:11.5 | self-storage space, guys, and much, much more. And so with that, I'm super excited to get onto |
| 1:15.8 | the show with Chris. But before we do, just have a few quick housekeeping items I'd like to run |
| 1:19.7 | through. First and foremost, I always like to share my one personal best and one professional best |
| 1:24.3 | from the prior week. Now, starting with the personal best, this past weekend, |
| 1:28.3 | my wife and I, we threw a surprise birthday party for her mom who just turned 65. We did let our house, |
| 1:34.0 | our new home that we just finished building not too long ago. We invited a ton of her friends |
| 1:37.6 | and her family to the house, and we just had a wonderful celebration. Her mom came in and was |
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