What up, Mr. Hicks? Brandon Hicks. Welcome to Action Academy podcast, long time coming.

You are an Action Academy member number one. That's right. What's up, dude? Yep. Not much.

Thanks for having me. Man, we'll start with where you're at today. Where are we today with storage?

Yeah, so I'd say three years ago, no storage at all. Today, it's just under $10 million across four properties, about 600 units, something like that.

So we've gone up to about $10 million in assets under management in the last three years.

Nice.

And does that include the $2 million that you just got under contract on or is that additional?

No, so that would be additional so

we did just get an accepted offer on a two and a half million dollar property as well all right now

was this always popping off like this or were there was there some changes that were made to

increase this deal flow lead flow because i feel like right now in the commercial space everybody

is just struggling to find deals no so it's definitely has not been this the deal flow has not

been as strong as it is right now I closed on my first deal I know we want to talk about this the wholesale

deal I closed in September of 2022 and that's right when I was about to leave my job and I thought

once I get all my time back from my W2 now I I'm just going to start closing deal every quarter. Maybe I can get up to a deal every month. And then I didn't find a single deal for, I think I got an accepted offer maybe one year later. And then I finally closed on two. It ended up being 16 months between deals. So I went all of 2023. I left my job thinking,

okay, I'm going to crush it. I've got 40 hours a week back. And then I had to sit through that,

right? Deal after deal, I think we underwrote maybe four or five hundred deals and couldn't get

anything to really pencil. I just switched my direction a little bit into in-house management,

which allowed me be a little bit more competitive than my offers. That helped me to land a couple of deals that I closed on this year,

actually when we were in Cabo for our Action Academy event. Yeah, every single time that you and I

travel together, you and I just left Canada. And every single time that we're together internationally,

Cabo and Canada, you close on like millions of dollars

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