The End of Self Storage? The Truth About RISK in Self Storage
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! That's right, you read that title correctly. Me, the biggest self storage investing cheerleader talking about the potential ends of self storage and the very real risks that exist in self storage investing. Now why would I do this? Here's the deal - when all you have is people praising a particular asset or investment, and people NOT talking about the risks (and even down playing or refusing to acknowledge the asset or investment even HAS risk)... we have a big problem that needs to be addressed. Self storage investing is in my opinion, is one of the best (if not the best) commercial real estate investment opportunities that exists. However, this does not mean that self storage investing 100% fool proof, or even that the amazing opportunity of self storage investing will remain the same (which it certainly won't). We're in an amazing time for the self storage industry. Again, the opportunity is massive. But we have to remain ever vigilant. We cannot buy into hype and fail to look at, acknowledge, and plan for the risks associated with ANY investment. So today, that's exactly what I'm going to be talking about. Thanks everybody! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn’t happen on an island, which is why I’ve launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ 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/ 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 | Welcome back, everybody, to the Self-Storage Income Podcast. We have another incredible episode lined up for you today. But before we get into that, huge shout out to all of our amazing sponsors, Janice International, Store Local, Live Oak Bank, and Tenant, Inc. Be sure to check out the links in the show notes. You guys probably hear us talking about these guys on the podcast all the time. Janice International, tons of amazing people, tons of amazing products, services, |
| 0:25.6 | their no-key service, there are 3 program, all these different aspects to help you build an |
| 0:29.8 | amazing storage facility or upgrade your storage facility. Just a fantastic group. Store |
| 0:35.6 | local. It's honestly one of the biggest threats to self-storage |
| 0:39.3 | is market consolidation and everything that goes along with that. So enter Store Local, |
| 0:45.4 | the largest storage co-op in the world. Just amazing people again. Tons of awesome people there |
| 0:51.6 | and amazing solutions to bring everybody's resources together |
| 0:55.1 | and utilize those in an effective way to be able to compete and also thrive in a world of |
| 1:01.6 | competition with some of these larger reits and the big players in the self-storage industry. |
| 1:06.5 | Check out store local, amazing, amazing opportunities there. |
| 1:09.7 | Live Oak Bank. |
| 1:10.7 | I don't know how many of you guys |
| 1:11.5 | came to our live event in Coral Lane just this past year, but we had some amazing conversations |
| 1:17.4 | with Live Oak Bank there, and they were probably one of the most popular topics there in our |
| 1:23.1 | breakout sessions, and people want to know. They want to know the financing. You guys want to know |
| 1:27.4 | what the solutions are, what the deals look like, all these different aspects to financing. |
| 1:32.4 | Live Oak Bank is that answer specifically for self-storage. They specialize in storage, which is just |
| 1:37.4 | incredible. There's no learning curve for them to understand the asset. They know it. They've been |
| 1:42.6 | there before. And they can help you see things |
| 1:44.5 | that you might not even be seeing yourself. So Live Oak Bank, amazing. Check the link in the show |
| 1:48.9 | notes. And last but not least, Tenant Inc. Tenant Inc. is an incredible slew of products and |
| 1:56.3 | services, essentially, for your storage facilities to help automate, to help streamline, to help optimize |
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