How to Evaluate a Market for Self Storage
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Before I got involved with self-storage I was stuck on a treadmill. Yes, I made good money, but it was my clients that owned my time and not me. If I wanted to make more money I had to put in more hours. If I stopped working money stopped coming in.
Self Storage changed that for me once and for all. And I want to show you how it can work for you.
Self-storage facilities investments are a quiet but growing sector of commercial real estate. Based on current demographic trends, they’re ready to benefit substantially.
You see, we live in a consumer culture. Americans love to buy stuff. At the same time, the average size of the American home continues to downsize. Which means people need a place to put all that stuff.
Enter self storage.
At this point, almost 10% of American’s use self storage and the industry has grown to bring in over $20 billion dollars in annual revenue.
I want to show you how to get started in this industry and create true financial freedom.
THIS ISN’T GUESS WORK — IT’S A REPEATABLE MODEL
With over 1 million square footage of self storage facilities across four states, we’ve created a scalable model that works.
We seek and purchase under performing facilities. When we overlay our model, we know almost exactly how the asset will perform in any given market. Our strategy has worked in large booming markets as well as extremely small rural areas.
Knowing how to read the market though, is a major key to that success. It's the big question everyone interested in storage wants to know - how do you evaluate a market for self storage?
There are a lot of considerations and calculations to take into account, but it's much more simple than I think a lot of people make it out to be. You just have to know what to look at.
I hope you all enjoy this look into the self storage market, and please be sure to send us your questions and comments!
Thanks everybody, AJ
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Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free 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 contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a storage facility deal.
You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on:
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AJ's Self Storage Masterclass - https://cashflow2freedom.com/self-storage/
Self Storage Income Website: https://www.selfstorageincome.com
My OTHER Podcast & YouTube Channel - Cashflow 2 Freedom - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCspPjuKSS7iohRa7VRvohqQ
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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. |
| 0:26.0 | 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. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to self storagestorage income. |
| 0:41.6 | Welcome, everybody, to self-storage income. |
| 0:45.2 | We have a fun and depressing topic today. |
| 0:50.2 | So, not really, it's actually great. |
| 0:52.9 | Great topic. |
| 0:54.6 | You know, I don't know how many people are on bigger pockets, but we like to get on there. |
| 1:00.1 | Me and Connor get on there and look at some of the discussions and what we're seeing in the forums. |
| 1:05.7 | And we try to participate in some of those conversations on self-storage. |
| 1:14.1 | And we're getting a lot of comments on choosing the right market, how to know if a market's overbuilt, how to know if a market's |
| 1:21.6 | healthy, growing. And this is becoming a bigger concern to people, which is great. It should be. And I think it was |
| 1:32.3 | an October, Connor? Yeah, late October, the Wall Street Journal. Yes. Late October, |
| 1:37.7 | the Wall Street Journal came out and it said, you know, it was titled, I think it was self-storage |
| 1:44.0 | facilities, go somewhere else. |
| 1:47.3 | And it was talking about actually a city near my hometown, so the Boise metro area. |
| 1:53.6 | And I was interviewed on the news about this topic related to the Wall Street Journal. |
| 2:03.3 | And there's been a few articles, but this was one that was a little more prevalent. |
| 2:08.6 | And it was on mortatoriums that cities are putting on and how they are dealing with self-storage |
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