No Money? No Problem! | How to Invest in Self Storage with Little to No Money
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
As you could imagine, I get a ton of questions about all things self storage investing (just look at the comments section on my YouTube channel lol), but one question I get a ton is how much money do I need to invest in self storage? And how do I get money to invest in self storage?
Like so many others, most of us just don’t have an extra million dollars or several million dollars just sitting around waiting to be invested. And you clearly can’t invest without capital. I’m going to let you in on a little secret - NO ONE has enough money on their own to invest and grow a company as quickly and effectively as those raising capital. You simply cannot scale quickly enough on your own.
Why do you think these large private equity companies do capital raises? Why do you think companies go public?
But raising money or bringing in partners isn’t the only way to close great self storage deals. You can also seller finance.
The fact is, you can invest in self storage without a dollar of your own money. Quit focusing on the sale price and the money - focus on finding a great deal and then build the deal with partners, with conventional financing, or through creative financing such as seller financing.
We take a deep dive in today’s episode to talk all things financing to help get you off on the right track to building your own amazing self storage deal.
WE’RE HIRING - if you think you’d be a great fit for the Cedar Creek Team, contact me here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/contact
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| 0:00.0 | I knew that there was a housing crash. Houses were overvalued, right? That didn't mean that a crash was coming. |
| 0:08.3 | The reason why houses were the symptoms, but these were due to financial products that were leveraged through insurance that caused mass defaults, but the defaults then were 10 to 1 of what they should have been |
| 0:23.2 | because of the financial instruments used. The CEOs of banks didn't understand why their |
| 0:28.9 | bank was losing billions of dollars. That caused an implosion of the financial system that nobody even understood was happening. |
| 0:40.4 | The more we know that the economy is in trouble, the less the economy is in trouble. |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:46.4 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.5 | Like, it's the more we can all talk about it and identify it, it means that everybody's |
| 0:52.4 | working on solutions. |
| 0:55.7 | When you don't know, |
| 1:00.7 | when you don't understand at all, even what's going on, and then by the time you do it's too late, that is totally different. Looking to create wealth and income through high cash flowing |
| 1:07.4 | real estate, self-storage is the fastest growing in the newest real estate |
| 1:11.5 | asset that has outperformed all others what's it secret I'm a J. Osborne and with |
| 1:17.1 | over a million square feet that we have built acquired expanded and even converted |
| 1:22.2 | big box stores from small third-tier markets to large hundred plus thousand square foot facilities we have seen it all |
| 1:30.2 | this is the podcast that we're going to discuss and bring on the best investors and operators in |
| 1:36.1 | the nation to show you how to create wealth and income with self storage welcome to self storage |
| 1:49.4 | what's going on, everybody? Connor here from the self-storage income podcast. So if you're looking to build or develop a self-storage facility, |
| 1:54.1 | one of the big challenges can be identifying and maximizing that rentable square footage, |
| 1:59.4 | not the total square footage. What's the rentable square footage going to be? |
| 2:02.9 | Forge Building Company can actually help you guys achieve that. |
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