The BIGGEST Risks to Self Storage and How You Can Reduce That Risk
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne.
That’s right, you read the title of this episode correctly. That “Risks to Self Storage” may have caught you off guard. If you’ve spent any time in the storage world or even looked at purchasing a facility, chances are, you’ve heard all the hype:
“Self storage is recession proof.”
“Self storage is a cash cow!”
“Build it and they will come.”
You probably haven’t heard much about the risk and trust me, there are very real risks in self storage investing.
Let’s get some facts straight right out of the gate - you cannot eliminate all risk. You can only plan for risk and do what you can with what you can actually control. That’s right, nothing is ‘risk proof’ and honestly, thinking something IS risk proof is insanely risky.
So what exactly are the biggest risks to self storage?
I’m glad you’re asking this question and even more glad you’re seeking an answer. We should never get carried away by all the hype and should be extra cautious whenever there’s hype surrounding anything. I’m going to share with you guys the biggest risks to self storage as an asset and I’m also going to share some risks regarding the self storage industry as a whole. No this isn’t an all doom and gloom, this is taking a look at real risks and preparing you to face them head on.
Thanks for tuning in 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.
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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 to the Self Storage Income. Today, I am here with Connor and we're talking about risk. |
| 0:59.7 | There's none of it. |
| 1:01.3 | None. |
| 1:01.7 | There's no risk in storage. |
| 1:03.6 | Cash cows, like, just buy it. |
| 1:05.8 | Recession proof. |
| 1:06.7 | They will come. |
| 1:07.8 | No risk. |
| 1:15.2 | Yes, that was sarcasm. Yes. Now, I'm excited to jump into this to, |
| 1:20.5 | I mean, for that reason alone, to really help clarify that there are very real risks in anything you do. And you got to prepare and plan for those risks regardless, because there's always going to be |
| 1:27.1 | unknowns, always going to be |
| 1:28.0 | things that you can't control. So it's absolutely something that you have to be thinking about. |
| 1:32.7 | And, you know, too, it's interesting because I had a conversation on, it was like the world's |
| 1:40.6 | largest real estate forum or something. And somebody was arguing with me about an aspect. |
| 1:46.8 | I had mentioned that there was a certain asset class that I believed was safer based |
| 1:53.6 | upon a few elements that were measurable. |
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