How to Start Investing in Self Storage | The Playbook
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2019
⏱️ 27 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.
But, we all have to start somewhere. Talking to a lot of you guys through email and social media, one of the biggest topics that keeps coming up is how and where to start investing in self storage. So, I decided today that that's exactly what we'd cover in this episode. I go through step by step and share with you exactly how I'd do it if I were to lose everything today and have to start investing all over again.
Thanks so much to all of you for reaching out and connecting with me and being a part of this awesome group.
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, 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. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome, everybody, to self-storage income. And today, we have a great topic because so many of |
| 0:49.9 | you guys have asked about this. And out of all our discussions around self-storage, I think it probably |
| 0:58.6 | encompasses like 60% of the discussions that I have with people who are reaching out or emailing |
| 1:07.4 | or in our inner circle and all these different things that we're doing working with |
| 1:11.0 | others in self-storage is of evolves around starting out by buying a small facility and lots of |
| 1:20.6 | times in a third tier market um what do you think connor do you think that's pretty accurate it's |
| 1:26.7 | going to be awesome and yes i think that's? Do you think that's pretty accurate? It's going to be awesome. |
| 1:28.0 | And yes, I think that's extremely accurate. |
| 1:30.7 | And that's exactly, it makes sense because that's exactly how you did it. |
| 1:35.7 | It's how you started. |
| 1:36.7 | So exactly. |
| 1:37.8 | Totally makes sense. |
| 1:39.1 | And too, I think for those of you that are not very familiar with storage and I guess we could explain why. |
| 1:46.1 | Let's start at the fundamentals here. |
| 1:48.3 | Third-tier markets are cheaper and smaller facilities are cheaper. |
| 1:53.9 | It is purely a, the economics of someone getting into it that maybe has savings, but they do not have, |
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