How to Get Started in Storage Investing [Step by Step Guide]
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast! This your Co-host Conner Skeen.
Today we’re going to dive into AJ’s step by step guide on how to get started in self storage investing. That guide is actually AJ’s best selling book “The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage”.
We know that there are a lot of you out there who are just starting their self storage investment journey. We couldn’t be more excited for you and we’re happy to be here to help. Getting off on the right foot is critical for any investor and we want to be sure to help give you the knowledge and the tools to be able to find and execute great storage deals.
AJ’s book is a wealth of knowledge for anyone wanting to invest in self storage. It walks anyone through from start to finish - the self storage industry, how to find deals, how to finance deals, how to analyze markets, operations, and more. Here’s the table of contents to give you an idea of the value this book holds:
Chapter 1: How I Found Self Storage and How It Saved Me
Chapter 2: Overview of the Self Storage INdustry and Why It’s a Great Investment Opportunity
Chapter 3: How to Get Started in Self Storage
Chapter 4: The Art of Valuation and Finding Deals
Chapter 5: Financing Your Self Storage Facility
Chapter 6: How to Evaluate the Competition and the Deal
Chapter 7: Self Storage Operations: Turning Around a Self Storage Facility
Chapter 8: How to Reduce Risk
Chapter 9: Static Real Estate Asset to Dynamic Self Storage Business
Terms and Concepts of the Trade
Resources
Not only does this book go over in hyper detail every one of these aspects, the information provided is actionable. Something you don’t get with so many books and resources out there.
Listen in, get ready to take notes, and if you haven’t already, be sure to pick up a copy of AJ’s book at the link below.
Thanks everybody,
Conner Skeen
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. |
| 0:49.2 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:50.4 | Welcome to the Self Storage Income podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | You just got Connor in the house today |
| 0:54.5 | hanging out. It's the holiday season. AJ's out with family. Everybody in the office is gone, |
| 1:00.3 | and I'm just the sole individual here in the office for now. It's been kind of hit and miss this week, |
| 1:05.8 | but I'm sure a lot of you guys can relate out there. Hopefully everybody out there is enjoying |
| 1:10.7 | the holiday |
| 1:11.9 | season. You guys are having a good time. Everybody's staying safe and just cherishing everything |
| 1:18.0 | that we hold dear in life and taking that time to reflect and slow down and just spend that |
| 1:23.6 | time that we all so greatly need to do. But anyways, I wanted to actually jump into |
| 1:30.9 | AJ's book today that I don't have AJ here. I just wanted to jump into this thing and kind of |
| 1:37.7 | share with you guys a little bit about this book. If you guys have already purchased his book and |
| 1:42.3 | you guys are going through it or have gone through it, just skip over this episode. It's not going to be anything, obviously, that you haven't |
| 1:48.9 | heard before or seen. But for those of you that have not picked up a copy of AJ's book, |
| 1:54.5 | it's called The Investor's Guide to Growing Wealth and Self-Storage, the step-by-step |
| 1:59.4 | playbook for turning a real estate asset into a thriving self-storage, the step-by-step playbook for turning a real estate asset into a thriving |
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