Skipping College Class to Millionaire Real Estate Investor - Hayden Crabtree
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne!
I have a good friend and fellow self storage investor Hayden Crabtree on the podcast today to talk all things getting started in self storage investing and a pretty incredible piece of technology that he's been working on and is bringing into the world of commercial real estate.
After deciding the college route wasn't for him, he decided to get a mentor and started into real estate investing. And find a mentor he did - Hayden linked up with a successful investor and worked for them for free just for the opportunity to learn and surround himself with the right people. Soon after that, he started working for equity in the deals that they were making.
Since then, Hayden has experienced numerous real estate investment successes (and some set-backs of course), and is now putting a huge emphasis on self storage investing.
We're going to talk about how he found his first deal, the lessons he learned, the mistakes he made, and why he's decided that self storage is the place to be all in. We then of course jump into the awesome piece of tech that he's working on - My Property Stats. I'm not going to dive into it here, but My Property Stats is probably one of THE most needed tools in the real estate investment industry. Listen to learn more and be sure to check out the link below.
Also be sure to pick up a copy of Hayden's best selling book 'Skip the Flip' that has a wealth of knowledge and insights for anyone wanting to immediately get into the commercial real estate investing game.
Thanks 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. |
| 0:47.4 | Welcome everybody to self-storage income. |
| 0:51.8 | And I got to say, I've had some pretty busy years Connor but this year is |
| 0:56.7 | stacking up to be one of the tops a hundred percent dude and on every level um companies growing |
| 1:03.6 | fast network is growing fast uh we've got a lot of big goals man and that that stands to reason and |
| 1:09.7 | um I'm excited yeah a lot of |
| 1:11.7 | good things going on too lots of good stuff um we talk a lot about everything from growing pains |
| 1:18.5 | and we talk about you know a lot of the stuff that uh we're learning about on our journey journey |
| 1:24.3 | both the good things and the things that you know know, we kind of screwed up or, uh, |
| 1:28.1 | done wrong on. And I like having those open conversations because I feel like that's what I |
| 1:35.4 | wish I would have had when starting out, right? It's to get kind of that look behind and seeing |
| 1:43.9 | how it's all being done and made and it can help |
| 1:46.7 | you build right. I think that's really important. And it's been one of the great things about |
| 1:51.4 | the podcast overall is us having being able to walk through our point at the journey where we're at, |
| 1:58.4 | but then also being able to walk through other people's journeys and where they are at, what they learned, how they got started. |
| 2:07.3 | It's just so unique and it's so dynamic. |
| 2:09.9 | And my friend Hayden Cabtree, he is with us in the office and we've been talking a lot about of course real estate everything else |
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