Is Now a Good Time to Buy a Storage Facility?
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
As it’s becoming more and more known that self storage is a strong performing asset, whether the markets are up or down, investing in self storage is quickly growing in popularity. But these are crazy times we’re living in. Markets are up, down, sideways, and none of us know what to expect between today and tomorrow. So the question is - is now a good time to buy or invest in a storage facility? The short answer? Absolutely yes, but, just as with any investment, only if you do it right. It doesn’t matter whether a market is up or down, a good deal is always a good deal, and a bad deal is always a bad deal. And trust me, the good deals are out there. We’ve looked at more deals in the past several weeks than we did in the last twelve months combined. So we know we have to do this right, but how? Well I’m glad you asked because we’re going to cover a lot of ground today that will help give you the tools to successfully invest in self storage, the tools to do it right. We talk about the economic nature of self storage, how we look at and value storage facilities, what capital markets and lenders are doing, how self storage has performed compared to other asset classes, and the two things that will always kill a storage deal. This is an incredible episode, enjoy it, take notes, and start looking for opportunities. Thanks a ton for listening everybody, AJ
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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 100 plus thousand square foot |
| 0:23.7 | facilities, we have seen it all. This is the podcast that we're going to discuss and bring on |
| 0:29.3 | the best investors and operators in the nation to show you how to create wealth and income |
| 0:35.6 | with self storage. Welcome to Self Storage Income. |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome to Self Storage Income. And what a time we are in. As always, I have my trusted co-host, Connor, here with me. How are you doing, man? |
| 0:57.9 | Doing great, doing great. Just trying to adjust to the new norm. I know a lot of people out there are |
| 1:02.6 | schooling children from home, myself included. So that's been a quite the adventure that my wife and I are |
| 1:10.1 | partaking right now. |
| 1:11.8 | Yes. |
| 1:12.8 | My little boy comes to our empty office with me and he'll do his online schooling in one of the offices while I sit in my office and get things done. |
| 1:21.5 | But yeah, it's starting to get cabin fever. |
| 1:23.5 | Kids are getting restless. |
| 1:24.9 | It's been interesting because we've seen a pretty big split and what's |
| 1:28.5 | going on in the United States, whereas you have some states that are like, we're opening. And then |
| 1:32.7 | you have other ones that are like, we're down another month. And it'll be interesting to see how |
| 1:37.3 | that plays out. And I think it obviously has to do with the impact of where is getting hit harder. |
| 1:42.6 | I know that we've already seen, it looks like, |
| 1:45.1 | in our state where we're located, Idaho, was it already peaked, they say, and we haven't been hit |
| 1:52.4 | very hard, so not hard at all, actually. We're very fortunate, unlike other states that have been |
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