The Self Storage Industry Today & What the Future Looks Like for Investors with John Lindsey
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne!
Today we have an incredible individual on the podcast who I’m honored to call a great friend - the one and only John Lindsey from the Lindsey Self Storage Group.
John has a huge wealth of knowledge when it comes to self storage. He’s done and is still doing it all - he owns and operates his own facilities, owns and operates a commercial real estate brokerage with an emphasis on self storage, has help partner and form the most powerful self storage co-op in the country, has authored a book, the list seriously could go on and on.
Today is simply a down to earth conversation about what John is seeing in the self storage industry currently, what he’s seen and experienced in the past, and what he believes is the not so distant future of self storage.
The self storage industry is not like it used to be. We compressed cap rates, stronger competition, and the space that used to be so fragmented is consolidating at a rapid rate that none of us ever predicted.
What does all this mean for you? What does it mean for us as self storage investors?
Hopefully today, we scrape the surface to help answer these questions.
Thanks for listening everybody and be sure to pick up a copy of John’s book below!
AJ
John’s Book - The Sexy Side of Self Storage: An Insider’s Guide to A Necessary Commodity
Connect and keep up with John on the Lindsey Self Storage Group website:
https://lindseyselfstoragegroup.com/
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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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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome back, everybody, to the Self-Storage Income. This podcast is brought to you by Live Oak Bank and Janice International. |
| 0:58.7 | Live Oak Bank is a partner that we've chosen to have as our sponsor because of the incredible work they do in the self-storage industry specifically. |
| 1:07.1 | They know storage. Their teams are very knowledgeable about the asset, the asset class, what you can and can't do, how things are valued. |
| 1:16.3 | Super, super important to have those kinds of partners on your side and Live Oak Bank can be those partners for you guys. |
| 1:22.5 | We've had an amazing feedback from so many people out there that have reached out to Live Oak and have had amazing experiences with them as well, which is so cool to hear. And one of the reasons why we've |
| 1:32.0 | specifically chosen them to be our sponsor on this podcast. So link is in the show notes. Go |
| 1:38.0 | check out Live Oak Bank. Get out of them. Get all your questions answered. Figure out what |
| 1:42.5 | direction you're going to go and get that |
| 1:44.2 | financing and funding figured out. Our next sponsor, Janice International, amazing solutions for you guys, |
| 1:49.5 | whether you're building a new facility or you're trying to upgrade an old facility. They have a lot of |
| 1:54.6 | amazing options and solutions for self-storage owner and operators to bring their facilities up to today's standards |
| 2:02.6 | and to also help you guys build some of the most state-of-the-art facilities |
| 2:07.9 | that you could possibly be building right now that help meet that user expectation |
| 2:13.6 | that that we all have really at this point where we want things on demand |
| 2:18.2 | we've got to have it right now it's got to be easy convenient all that stuff janice international |
| 2:22.7 | provides that they provide great solutions and valuable solutions and they too like live oak |
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