What's going on, guys?

Welcome into today's show.

I've got Bill Canatus from self-storage developers.

He is the co-founder and CEO of the organization and leads the company's strategic growth in

site acquisition, investment initiatives, and focusing on developing Class A self-storage facilities

for national operators like public storage, extra space storage, and life storage.

And we basically kind of give a full masterclass today on

commercial real estate development specifically for self storage, how he finds these sites,

what they do in terms of market research and studies, how they entitle them, how they go

and structure and engineer the capital stacks for raising money and getting debt to build

these properties out and then how they manage and operate them, what the returns look like.

You're going to get everything on their model today. And from a seasoned real estate developer

like Bill, some great wisdom and insights on how you can make sure you don't make a lot of

the mistakes that self-storage investors or developers oftentimes make, how you can crush it

using this model and vehicle, whether it's for self-storage or just understanding a little bit more

of the development process as a real estate investor, if that's something of interest to you.

Also, just things to understand and expect.

If you're going to be a passive investor in a syndication like what they do and understanding

what kind of returns to expect, some of the timelines, some of the things that you're

really going to want to understand if you're looking to be a passive investor.

So a great insightful episode today on all things

development, all things self-storage. And let's go ahead and dive in with Bill Canatus from

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