How to Know When to Buy and When Not to Buy Your New Storage Facility
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 45 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.
The trick is... knowing when to buy and when not to buy a storage facility. Well, it's not so much a trick as it is a skill and a calculated process. I just released a playbook on the Self Storage Income website that goes through a lot of this process in an easy to follow, step by step process.
In this episode however, I focus on four main parts of the facility evaluation/identification process:
- Supply/Demand
- Location
- Offering/Quality
- Execution/Operations
We go over how important it is to start with the first two parts (the parts or factors that you cannot control)- Supply/Demand and Location.
We then jump into the other parts (which you do have control over) - Offering/Quality and Execution/Operations.
Listen in, get ready for the new year, and get ready to evaluate and make the leap to purchase some storage facilities this new year.
Please be sure to send us your questions and comments! And go to my website Self Storage Income to keep up with everything we have going on.
Thanks everybody and happy New Year! 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:
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 welcome to self-storage |
| 0:43.5 | income and it is a new year that's right no it not just a new year it's a new decade and it is going to be a phenomenal one. But you know, the thing is, |
| 0:58.5 | last decade was a phenomenal decade. I think back the last decade and I'm like, wow, so much |
| 1:07.3 | happened. I had a bunch of babies, lost my job, became paralyzed. |
| 1:14.2 | And you know what? |
| 1:15.3 | I say that jokingly. |
| 1:16.3 | It was an amazing decade because I had a bunch of babies and I lost my job and I got paralyzed. |
| 1:23.3 | They're all really good things. |
| 1:24.9 | All perspective, man. |
| 1:25.6 | All perspective. |
| 1:27.3 | And within that decade, you know, built a great real estate empire, started a few companies, |
| 1:37.5 | traveled all over the place. |
| 1:39.0 | I literally relearned how to walk and breathe and eat, all that good stuff. |
| 1:43.3 | But most importantly, the best part of the decade by far was that you joined us, Connor. |
| 1:50.3 | That was the pinnacle right there. |
| 1:53.6 | Well, holy moly, dude. |
| 1:55.0 | I don't even have like a good speech or response to that at all. |
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