Will it Crash? The Coming Bubble in Self Storage
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host, AJ Osborne!
That’s right… you have me, one of the biggest self storage investing cheerleaders talking about a self storage crash… Does this mean that I’m selling all my storage facilities? Ceasing operations? Shutting it all down?
Not even close.
In fact, my team and I are going harder than ever finding and making great deals. So why all this discussion and attention to a potential self storage crash? Because a crash is a very real potential currently, and the self storage industry is just not in the position it was before the Great Recession in 2008. All said and done, if you haven’t been investing well, and you’re banking on self storage to perform the same in the event of another recession, you’re in for a huge and potentially painful surprise.
Ok, but why? Why would self storage perform differently now than it has in the past during market corrections?
Well, I shot out a series of posts on Twitter that outlines and explains this whole thing in extreme detail. Needless to say, it got a TON of views and got a lot of people talking.
That said, I had to do a podcast to go even more in depth as to what I’m seeing and what we should absolutely be planning for as self storage investors.
We will be going over a lot of data in this podcast, so we decided to make this one into a special video episode on our YouTube channel! You won't miss anything just tuning in as usual, but if you are a more visual person, you'll want to check it out!
Video version: https://youtu.be/Sm0pZsLkxoo
Enjoy, take note, and ensure you’re investing in only the best self storage deals.
Thanks everybody,
AJ
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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 |
| 0:21.2 | to large 100 plus thousand square foot facilities, |
| 0:24.6 | we have seen it all. |
| 0:26.0 | This is the podcast that we're going to discuss |
| 0:28.4 | and bring on the best investors and operators |
| 0:31.2 | in the nation to show you |
| 0:33.5 | how to create wealth and income with self-storage. |
| 0:36.9 | Welcome to self Storage Income. |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast. |
| 0:47.8 | The title of this podcast is not clickbait, so I think we first just need to get that out of the way. |
| 0:57.3 | It's very attractive. |
| 1:05.3 | Yes. Yes. It draws lots of eyes, but it's not simply clickbait. Also, we need to, I think, |
| 1:12.6 | kind of solidify right now. We're going to be going over a lot of charts, data, we'll explain everything but if you are on the podcast you can go to youtube to watch the podcast where you'll be able to see |
| 1:19.8 | a lot more of what we're talking about which may help not that you're going to miss anything |
| 1:26.1 | but if you're a visual person that'll help out a really will. Yeah, we've got a lot to cover today. And we've got some good visual representation. So definitely check it out here on the YouTube channel. And we can see what we're talking about. It's going to be fantastic. Looking forward to diving into this, man. I know AJ, you can be kind of opinionated sometimes in regards to self-storage and other |
| 1:47.5 | things. |
| 1:48.7 | And the Twitter world is very sensitive. |
| 1:55.2 | And so you'd put out this tweet the other day, man, that ended up just getting a ton of |
| 1:59.5 | traction, a lot of eyeballs |
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