Self Storage Crises and Large Expenses You Need to Know About and Prepare For
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host, AJ Osborne.
Today we’re talking about the nitty gritty… the unexpected crises and large expenses you absolutely need to be aware of. It’s tough sometimes to imagine the worst case scenario, whether because it makes you cringe or because you simply don’t know what you don’t know. Either case is no excuse to recognize the very real possibility of a storage facility failing.
On this note real quick… if you ever hear anyone say storage is “recession proof”... run away. Self storage has performed extremely well through recessions, however, storage is not (and neither is anything else), “recession proof”. To say self storage is recession resistant… is a much more accurate phrase. So please, don’t think self storage can never fail, because it can.
Now that that’s been said…
I want to share with you in today’s episode some of the things that you need to be thinking about when it comes to the worst case scenario at your storage facility. Just a few examples - we’ve had tenants threaten the lives of our employees, we’ve had unexpected repairs that ended up costing over $50K, we’ve had tenants that end up coming under investigation for murder and our team having to coordinate with law enforcement… I could go on and on.
To help shed some light on these unfortunate events, I wanted to cover some of these crises and large expenses so that you can be sure to know what to look for, and so that you can have solid standard operating procedures for yourself and your team to handle these situations.
All in all, we need to realize that bad things can and will happen at some point or another and we need to be prepared financially and mentally for those challenges.
Thanks for tuning in, I’ll see you next time!
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 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 welcome everybody to |
| 0:50.6 | self-storage income we have got an interesting podcast today. |
| 0:58.8 | We had some interesting events that involved murders and bombs and other fun things at the storage facilities. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:09.5 | In all seriousness, it's not something to laugh at. |
| 1:12.5 | I mean, this is all very serious stuff. |
| 1:14.0 | But I guess in some of these things, you can't, it's all you can do is kind of laugh. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.0 | It's laughable only in the, by the way of being, it's so outrageous that it's like, we're still hard to even believe |
| 1:30.3 | it really happened. |
| 1:32.5 | Like, you know, it's just crazy. |
| 1:34.9 | So today we're talking about crisis. |
| 1:37.7 | We're talking about large expenses and the things that can happen at your storage facility. |
| 1:43.4 | That's really going to be the goal. |
| 1:45.0 | And as we kind of walk through some of these events that had happened and what you do to prepare for them and what to watch out for while you own a storage facility. |
| 1:54.0 | And if you're going to be getting into it, the bumps in the road, the potholes, the things that are inevitably going to happen. |
| 2:01.7 | And I think that's a really important conversation to have. |
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