The Shifting Self Storage Market - Opportunities & Risks I’m Looking at Today
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
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🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast!
We recently did a podcast titled - 'The Deals Are Coming Back'... if you haven't listened to that episode, you should. It complements this episode we have lined up for you today.
The self storage and real estate market as a whole is shifting. But before you lose your mind thinking things are going to "crash" (I don't believe they are), hear me out - there's going to be more buying opportunity in the next couple of years in self storage than there possibly ever has been. This is super exciting. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
Yes there are, and will continue to be incredible self storage investing opportunities - however, this does not come without risk. That's why today I wanted to share with you all the incredible self storage investing opportunities that I see coming down the line. And of course, I want to share with you all the risks and pitfalls that I'm looking at and paying attention to as well. The reality is - no one knows exactly what is going to happen and as Jocko Willink would say, "The enemy always gets a vote.", Meaning there will always be risks to mitigate and manage.
Outside of this, we talk about the ebbs and flows of the overall economy and the markets and what I'm doing to plan for the long term. Self Storage Investing isn't slowing down any time soon and neither am I! Now let's go get some deals!
Thanks everybody,
AJ
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| 0:00.0 | When execution is abundant, meaning you have lots of money and lots of resources, opportunities are down. |
| 0:06.5 | Why? Because lots of execution means more people can execute and do deals, so there's more competition, |
| 0:14.1 | so prices are driven higher to it, and so really good deals go down. |
| 0:18.4 | The people that are waiting for good deals generally can't execute. |
| 0:23.0 | Or they haven't prepared themselves to execute or they're scared to execute or whatever the thing is. |
| 0:27.1 | So when they come, they don't. |
| 0:31.2 | What's going on, guys? |
| 0:32.4 | Connor here from the Self Storage Income podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | It doesn't matter what part of the cycle that we're in, guys. Development |
| 0:38.1 | is always going to be an amazing opportunity for you guys. And look no further than Forge Building |
| 0:43.0 | Company to be your building partner at your development project. Forge is one of the leading |
| 0:48.1 | self-storage contractors in the country. They're building nationwide. And just in the last 15 years, |
| 0:53.2 | these guys have built over 60 million square feet in storage, which is totally insane. That's a ton of storage, guys. And that's |
| 0:59.6 | over 500 projects. So they know self-storage. They can value engineer like nobody's business |
| 1:04.5 | and save you tons of money. Be sure to check out Forge Building Company. Welcome to self-storage income. |
| 1:12.5 | And we have had, you know, a crazy summer. |
| 1:17.3 | I think on the whole landscape of the economy, the U.S. self-storage and our firm as well. |
| 1:27.0 | Generally speaking, summer slows down, which in some aspects it has. |
| 1:32.7 | But I think a lot more of the slowdown is due to a lot of these economic changes that we're seeing. |
| 1:40.2 | And I feel like that we're seeing just a pause overall. |
| 1:44.9 | And we really wanted to cover today that pause, which is actually just a transition to a different point in cycles. |
| 1:54.3 | And that transition is going on. |
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