Self Storage Investing Introduction | How to Get Started and How to Crush It
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! There’s no two ways about it, our most popular podcast episodes all have to do with getting started in self storage investing. Which obviously makes a ton of sense. There are a lot of you out there who are just getting started on this awesome journey of self storage investing and you’re needing answers, resources, tools, and a great self storage deal. But how do we find all of these things, combine them, and create a successful deal? It’s a process and one that is well worth taking the time and effort to go through. It’s a process that we’re going to dive into a bit on today’s episode. We’re going to talk about the different ways you can make money from a self storage investment, the keys you should be focusing on, and what I believe are the biggest downsides and biggest upsides of self storage investing. I’m also going to talk about where the opportunity is and how you can take the best advantage of those great opportunities. Enjoy and until next time! Thanks everybody! AJ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your 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 to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Store Local - https://www.selfstorage.coop/aws/SL/pt/sp/home_page Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/
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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. |
| 0:10.2 | What's its secret? |
| 0:11.3 | I'm A.J. Osborne and with over a million square feet that we have built, acquired, expanded, and even converted big box stores from small third tier markets to large 100 plus thousand square foot |
| 0:23.6 | 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. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome, everybody, to Self Storage Income, the podcast where we get to talk about all things. |
| 0:51.9 | Self Storage, probably our favorite topic, I'd say. |
| 0:55.5 | 100% favorite topic. I mean, you know, whole podcast, YouTube, everything, you know, book. |
| 1:01.2 | We do a little bit. We really, really like this space. And today, we are going to be talking |
| 1:09.5 | about really like an intro into self-storage, |
| 1:13.5 | getting started, and how to crush it. |
| 1:17.3 | This is a really important topic to a lot of people. |
| 1:20.7 | But it's funny because I think a lot of these same things, they don't change. |
| 1:26.5 | Like the fundamentals and the understanding and the getting |
| 1:30.0 | started is what we use every time we buy a new facility, every time we go to build one. |
| 1:37.3 | It's always getting started and it's always making sure we're going to crush it with that |
| 1:42.0 | asset. So the, you know, this is like an evergreen topic |
| 1:45.9 | for even experienced investors. In fact, the further you get away from the getting started in the |
| 1:51.8 | beginning, I think it's almost like the further you start to get into realms where you'll get |
| 1:55.4 | into trouble. For sure, for sure. And like you said, you know, times changed, but the fundamentals |
| 1:59.7 | don't. And like you're saying, every single deal that we're looking at today versus three years ago, 10 years ago, whatever, we're still looking at those same metrics. |
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