Should You Buy or Should You Build a Storage Facility? (Key Factors to Consider)
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What’s going on everybody!? Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast, I’m your host, AJ Osborne!
I have to say, I get asked a ton of questions about self storage and self storage investing as a whole. But one of the most popular questions I get, especially right now is, “do I buy a storage facility, or do I build a storage facility?”
The answer? YES! If your numbers work for you to just buy an already existing facility, and building doesn’t make sense, then you buy existing. If your numbers work better to build than to acquire an existing storage facility, then build!
I know the answer doesn’t seem this simple, and yes, there are absolutely factors that we look at to gauge whether or not we want to buy or build a storage facility. But what exactly are those factors to look for or look at? Well, I’m going to share those factors with you on today’s podcast.
I’m going to share exactly what we look for, reasons you SHOULDN’T build, key factors that tell me when to buy and when to build, and more. It really comes down to 2 very important keys… that you’ll have to learn about in the podcast today.
Thanks 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 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. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome everybody to self-storage income. And today's podcast, we are talking about the ultimate question right now, which is a very |
| 0:59.2 | important one and one that we get asked a lot. |
| 1:03.2 | People, members of our inner circle are asking it. |
| 1:05.6 | We hear it all the time. |
| 1:06.7 | So we want to have a discussion. |
| 1:10.6 | The discussion is, do you build or buy? |
| 1:16.9 | Now, this is something that is an, you know, there are some periods in time that I think |
| 1:25.2 | it's very clear on what you should do. |
| 1:28.7 | And we can talk about the clarity, what makes that clear and what makes that not. |
| 1:33.3 | There's also things like risk that I think there might be some misconceptions about that we need to discuss. |
| 1:41.3 | But we're going to dive into all of that. |
| 1:45.7 | Excited to have you here, Connor. |
| 1:47.6 | Yeah, excited to be here, dude. |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah, just hanging out, hanging out, doing our huge. |
| 1:51.0 | What was the last one you did without me? |
| 1:52.9 | Or was it the one before that? |
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