Self Storage Income

Show Notes:  Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast!    That’s right! We’re talking about a super important part of a self storage investing deal… the financing.    Luckily for us, there are currently a lot more financing tools and willing lenders nowadays than there used to be (man that makes me feel old… lol). Whether you’re going the SBA route, hard money lending, using your own cash, etc. there are obviously certain fundamentals of self storage financing that we need to look at and fully understand. After all, we’re only as good as the tools we have available, and actually KNOW how to use. Not only that, we need to have financing contingencies in place and more to cover all the bases and help ensure our deals actually get done.    We’re going to dive into all this today and help shed some much needed light on the funding and financing of self storage deals.    As always, thank you all for your support!  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/   Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/   Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free 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/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne!    I have a good friend and fellow self storage investor Hayden Crabtree on the podcast today to talk all things getting started in self storage investing and a pretty incredible piece of technology that he's been working on and is bringing into the world of commercial real estate.    After deciding the college route wasn't for him, he decided to get a mentor and started into real estate investing. And find a mentor he did - Hayden linked up with a successful investor and worked for them for free just for the opportunity to learn and surround himself with the right people. Soon after that, he started working for equity in the deals that they were making.    Since then, Hayden has experienced numerous real estate investment successes (and some set-backs of course), and is now putting a huge emphasis on self storage investing.    We're going to talk about how he found his first deal, the lessons he learned, the mistakes he made, and why he's decided that self storage is the place to be all in. We then of course jump into the awesome piece of tech that he's working on - My Property Stats. I'm not going to dive into it here, but My Property Stats is probably one of THE most needed tools in the real estate investment industry. Listen to learn more and be sure to check out the link below.    Also be sure to pick up a copy of Hayden's best selling book 'Skip the Flip' that has a wealth of knowledge and insights for anyone wanting to immediately get into the commercial real estate investing game.    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/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free 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/      

Need help analyzing a self storage market? Check out our feasibility study services here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/feasibility Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! Well this is an important question isn’t it? When you’re looking at a self storage deal, how do you know whether or not it's a good deal or it's not even a “deal” at all? Obviously, this is an important question to have an answer to. The thing is though… answers may vary. But there’s some good news at least. There are some fundamental drivers that can help you identify a great self storage investing opportunity, and also help with rooting out the bad. I’m going to share those fundamentals with you today to help you be able to quickly identify great self storage deals. 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/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free 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/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! As you probably know, the value add strategy is the cornerstone of most investment strategies. You invest in something that’s undervalued, inject value, extract that value, and re-deploy that return into other investments. This is one key piece of my self storage investment strategy. But how do you actually accomplish this? What steps can you take to actually improve and maximize the value of a self storage investment? To help answer these questions, I’m bringing in a subject matter expert, my partner, and my father, Ron Osborne. We cover a number of strategies that we’ve used to control and drive the revenue of a storage facility to maximize our returns in the quickest and most effective ways possible. These are the same strategies that you too can use in your self storage investing strategy. Kick back, relax, and learn how you too can drastically increase the revenue from a storage facility. Thanks for listening 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/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free 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/

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne Podcast! When it comes to business, when it comes to success or failure, there’s ONE thing that truly determines it all… CASH FLOW. Cash flow is the absolute king of business. If it's not there… you’re in trouble. This all comes down to the business, the industry, and your specific value proposition. This comes down to timing, overcoming challenges, and making educated and calculated decisions day to day. I’m going to share a bit about my journey on today’s podcast and how different the landscape and the opportunity is today than it was years ago when I got started. In some ways, there is immeasurably more opportunity and in some ways, there’s less. But the fact remains, opportunity exists to create incredible businesses, with incredible cash flow, so that you can live an incredible life. This opportunity of timing, growth, and cashflow was one my partners and I identified in self storage and to say it’s paid off is an absolute understatement. Thanks for tuning everybody! AJ You can also find the AJ Osborne Podcast on: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aj-osborne-podcast/id1466437301 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Py4hxvj5Yh1rRpat7mkro?si=5cd7f293c3fd416c Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/cash-flow-2-freedom Be sure to keep up with me on the AJ Osborne website: https://ajosborne.com/ You can also follow and keep up with me on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajosborne/ Interested in Self Storage Investing? Then check out my website Self Storage Income and listen to the Self Storage Income Podcast: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! Alright, so if I were any kind of a good writer, then I’d probably put something here for you that would do today’s episode some kind of justice in explaining how freakin’ awesome it is… but that’s all I got guys haha it’s freakin’ awesome. Why? Well we have my great friends Andrew Freeman and Jon Marshalla on the podcast today. Their names might sound familiar because this isn’t their first appearance here on the podcast. They appeared on the podcast once before and they also attended our live Self Storage Income event in Coeur d’Alene Idaho this past year. And no, this certainly won’t be the last time we have these investing juggernauts on. What these two guys and their immensely growing team have accomplished over the past several years is truly astonishing and incredibly notable. Not only in regard to the amazing self storage portfolio they’ve been able to acquire and build, but the team they’ve assembled to be able to execute on all these great opportunities. All said and done, these are guys you want and need to listen to if you have any interest at all in being a successful investor. Today’s episode has some incredible amounts of value that you won’t want to miss - we’re talking self storage risks, what we’re seeing in the market today, and what the future of self storage could hold, and also how we’re planning for these inevitable changes that are coming. Listen in, take notes, and soak up everything you can from these guys. 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/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! AJ Osborne here your host of this awesome podcast that’s become the largest podcast in the world on self storage, and no, I’m not shy to say that, it’s absolutely incredible! As you might know, so much of successful real estate investing, or even entrepreneurship comes down to effectively applying some kind of value add strategy. You’re purchasing something at a certain price, then improving the value through controllable levers, and selling it for more than what you bought it for. One of the most impactful value add strategies in self storage investing is something called Dynamic Pricing. Imagine being able to constantly increase your cashflow on your assets and the ability to extract the utmost value from them. This is the power of dynamic pricing. What is dynamic pricing? How do you use and deploy this strategy? Well you’re about to find out. This is a fantastic episode where we dive deep into this subject and share with you how me and my team have been able to almost immediately generate millions of equity and cashflow from assets that were undervalued and underperforming. 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/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! Holy cow, do I have an awesome episode lined up for you guys today! I had the pleasure to have my great friend Paul Moore on the podcast today who is an absolute wealth of knowledge when it comes to self storage and all things commercial real estate. This also isn’t the first time we’ve had Paul on the podcast to share the value, he’s been on once before, you’ll absolutely want to go and listen to that first episode with Paul as well. Paul got his start in multi-family and residential real estate investing. After identifying that commercial real estate was where the real money was made, he decided to make the leap. Fast forward to today and he’s driving a ship called Wellings Capital and just got done raising capital to acquire hundreds more commercial properties - self storage facilities included. We talk all things self storage, how it stacks up and compares against multi-family, storage investment risks, and why self storage continues to be one of the best commercial real estate asset classes to be investing in. Paul also shares some exciting news - his brand new book ‘Storing Up Profits’ just dropped and its an incredible book on self storage investing that you have to check out. Check out the link and pick up a copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Storing-Profits-Capitalize-Obsession-Self-Storage/dp/1947200488/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1643823951&sr=8-1 Also be sure to keep up with Paul and all the great work him and his team are doing on their website at: https://www.wellingscapital.com/ 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/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! There’s no two ways about it guys, there’s a lot of uncertainty in the air regarding the US Dollar and the US Economy. There are a lot of reasons as to why we’re in the place we are today and this is a beast of a topic to cover, but we’re going to dive in head first. Because these macro-economic changes can have a huge impact in you and your self storage investing plans. We’re going to talk about the current economy, some ideas of what future performance will look like for the economy, all based on where we’re at today. Thing is we’ve never been here before, these are uncharted waters. We’re also going to talk about reserve currency, what this is, and comparing it to other countries. Then the big topics - what are the threats to our fragile systems and currency and what are the impact that those threats have and could potentially have. I don’t want to take up too much of your time here, so let’s get right to it! 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/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! There’s something I hear quite a bit and I heard it more when I first started doing all this content and sharing my self storage investing “secrets” with the world. You guys and even friends have asked me, “AJ, why are you sharing all this information with everyone?” Or “Why are you doing all this work on content?” Well let me break it down for you. The truth is - me sharing this information doesn’t hurt me, doesn’t hurt the self storage industry, and it certainly doesn’t hurt those looking to learn more about self storage investing. Yes you could try and make the argument that I’m creating more competition… you could TRY, but you’d be wrong. Sharing this information actually accompmlishes the complete opposite - it helps me, it helps the industry, and of course, it helps you. And it DOESN’T create more competition. Just think about this - because of these podcasts, videos, live events and so on that I’ve created and hosted, how many deals have been done? How many friends have been made? How many legacies have been started? How much freedom has someone been able to inject into their lives? It’s not even calculable, but just from the stories I’ve heard and even know about… the impact has been massive and it’s been staggering. In today’s podcast I’m going to dive into all of this. I’m going to share why it’s been so important for me to build these brands, this content, and this legacy. I’m going to share what we do, how we do it, and why fundamentals are great but learning the actionable steps to those fundamentals is SO much better. We’re going to talk frameworks, building business, and sharing that journey with the world. This is one for the note books so get ready, take notes and soak up some value. 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/ Want to level up to our most exclusive group that focuses specifically on self storage investing - check out the Self Storage Income Inner Circle and set yourself up for self storage investing success: https://ic.selfstorageincome.com/innercircle 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/