Self Storage Income

Welcome everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast. I’m AJ Osborne, your host and self proclaimed self storage investing addict. So many times we can get caught up in all the details and analysis of our goals, investing and otherwise. That’s why today I wanted to dial in on three keys to help you focus on when analyzing whether or not to move forward with a proposed storage facility. The three simple keys we go over today are: Demand Revenue Potential Cost Once you accurately identify and measure these variables, you’ll have a pretty clear idea of whether or not a proposed storage facility is a go. I walk you all through how to analyze demand, how to identify revenue potential, and how to analyze cost to help ensure that you’re making the best investment decisions possible. Listen in, take notes, and please, email me any questions you have! We love addressing your questions on the podcast and social media. Thanks for listening everybody! AJ Pick up a copy of my book An Investor’s Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage here: https://selfstorageincome.com/book/ 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 contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a storage facility deal. 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/

What’s up everybody!? Welcome to the Self Storage Income podcast and welcome to part 2 of this short series where we’re taking a deep dive into the world of growing wealth through self storage.   Today we break down some more of the key aspects of why self storage can be such an incredible investment. We take today’s talking points directly from my new book - The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage.   Our focus today (like most days) is growth - more specifically, growth through systems. To grow and scale we need systems - systems for hiring, procedure, acquiring assets, billing, project management, and so forth. It’s no secret that we as individuals cannot do absolutely everything that needs to be done for our growing businesses. This means, we must build systems that allow us to hand off those tasks and responsibilities to a qualified team. This means that you can work ON and not IN your business.   This ideal is one of the reasons I decided to put together this book, the guide of all guides - The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage.   This guide has taken years of experience for myself and my team to be able to put together for you guys, and I couldn’t be more excited to provide this to you all.   This guide walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a potential storage facility, how to analyze markets, the keys to underwriting, acquiring a facility, changing day where you take over the facility, and yes, how to build systems to help ensure you’re working on and not in your business. I even provide real examples with real numbers from deals we’ve done to show you exactly how we’ve gone from owning one storage facility, to now owning and operating over 1 Million square feet of storage valued at over $150 Million.   If you’ve been following me or listening to our podcasts for any length of time, you know that I can’t stand “fluff”. The only thing I want to provide is value. I want to provide actionable steps that you can utilize in your investing to help you build and live the life you’ve always dreamed of. This guide is no different and is probably one of the most (if not the most) valuable pieces of work I’ve ever created.   Today’s podcast is a break down, or a sneak peak if you will, of what you can expect to find in this guide. Take notes and get ready to pick up your own copy of The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage.   Pick up your copy of the The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage here: https://selfstorageincome.com/   Thanks everybody for listening and for all of the amazing feedback and support.   -- AJ   **   After you buy the book on Amazon - Make sure you grab your FREE Bonus Investment Calculator by filling out the form on the link below: https://selfstorageincome.com/book-bonus/    **    

Welcome everybody to Self Storage Income!   Today is an incredibly special episode, and this is just part 1. It represents decades of work, time, effort, successes and failures. As you all know, it takes teams of people and years of discipline and hard work to achieve life goals. It’s a journey of ups and downs and one of the most difficult parts about the journey is having the knowledge to be able to execute successfully. The same applies to self storage investing.   This is one of the reasons I decided to put together the guide of all guides - The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage.   As I said, this guide has taken years of experience for myself and my team to be able to put together for you guys, and I couldn’t be more excited to provide this to you all.   This guide walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a potential storage facility, how to analyze markets, the keys to underwriting, acquiring a facility, changing day where you take over the facility. I even provide real examples with real numbers from deals we’ve done to show you exactly how we’ve gone from owning one storage facility, to now owning and operating over 1 Million square feet of storage valued at over $150 Million.   If you’ve been following me or listening to our podcasts for any length of time, you know that I can’t stand “fluff”. The only thing I want to provide is value. I want to provide actionable steps that you can utilize in your investing to help you build and live the life you’ve always dreamed of. This guide is no different and is probably one of the most (if not the most) valuable pieces of work I’ve ever created.   Today’s podcast is a break down, or a sneak peak if you will, of what you can expect to find in this guide. Take notes and get ready to pick up your own copy of The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage.   Pick up your copy of The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage here: https://selfstorageincome.com/   Thanks everybody for listening and for all of the amazing feedback and support. - AJ **   After you buy the book on Amazon - Make sure you grab your FREE Bonus Investment Calculator by filling out the form on the link below: https://selfstorageincome.com/book-bonus/   **    

Welcome everyone to the Self Storage Income podcast! Real quick here, we’re proud to be the largest self storage podcast and that is all thanks to you - our incredible fans and listeners! Thank you for your continued support, your emails, your comments, your reviews, it’s an absolute honor to have you all here. That said, let’s get down to business… Yes you read that title right, and yes, it may sound click-baity. Nonetheless, this is exactly what we’re going to talk about today, and yes, it’s a real thing. I’ve built many companies, but few provide the advantages and upside that self storage investing can offer. Our storage portfolio of over 1 Million square feet of storage and over $150 Million in assets under management, has been built on the concepts we talk about in today’s episode, concepts that few have heard of and even less have deployed. We’re going to walk you through, quick and easy, the exact strategy we’ve used to identify value, to get and produce known returns, to yield 100% returns over and over again, and to do it all with little to no risk. The strategy we cover today can be utilized over and over again, compounding on itself each and every step along the way. Is it complicated? Not even close. In fact, this is probably one of the least complicated episodes we’ve done in regard to investment strategy. That said, get ready to take some notes so you can get out there and start crushing it. Thanks everybody, AJ

Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast! Today we’re talking about scale and building self storage empires. A lot of the time when we start out or as we continue to build our businesses, we think we have an idea of how everything will play out and how we’ll get from point A to point B. As any of us know that have started or that are owning and operating any business, things rarely play out like we suspect them to. One of the biggest things we get wrong is just that, we ask how to get from point A to point B, when in reality, we should be asking ourselves how to get from point A to point Z. We fail to think bigger and successfully reverse engineer ourselves to that ultimate goal. We fail to build the foundations today that will continue to drive us forward both now and in the decades to come. Today, we wanted to help address these issues and to help set you all on the right path to scaling an empire. To do this, we break down and give an in depth overview of our four squared process of scale. Thanks for listening everybody, AJ 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 contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a storage facility deal. 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/  

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast where we talk anything and everything self storage. Today, we have another incredible episode coming your way. Reviewing our most popular podcast episodes, we’ve found that the “how to’s” that have to do with starting out in self storage investing have been the most downloaded. That said, we wanted to throw another “how to” your way that will not only help you get started, but that will help you scale to new heights. The discussion today is all about how to raise capital for your self storage deals, and also how to structure those deals with investors. Through this episode we walk you through our exact deal structures, the pros, cons, and how you might want to structure your deals as well. This discussion is so dynamic and there are so many variables when raising capital and structuring deals, that we won’t be able to cover everything in this episode. However, we share exactly what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. Enjoy and thanks so much for listening. AJ 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 contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a storage facility deal. 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/  

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast! I’ve had people ask me lately how it is that I can do all of the things that I do. From self storage investing, my health insurance brokerage, to my new book, and my online companies, there’s no two ways about it, I have a ton going on and I absolutely love it. But how can one person do so many things at once and keep it all on track? There’s one key - leverage. In today’s episode I’m going to dive into this idea of using leverage to grow both professionally and financially. As I always say, success is never built on an island. Time, money, knowledge, relationships - we have to use these resources and leverage these resources to be able to grow and function at our highest level. We cover all of this and more in today’s episode. Thanks everybody, AJ 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 contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a storage facility deal. 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/  

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast! Today we’re talking about good ‘ol small towns and the pros and cons of investing in a self storage facility there. There’s great opportunity to be had in small towns when you’re looking to start investing in self storage. But like most great opportunities, there are risks and pitfalls that you need to plan for and be aware of. We walk through the details of one of our small town deals, a facility we still own today, and talk about why it was a good deal, what we looked for, what we saw, and why we ended up purchasing the facility. If you’re just getting started and have limited cash on hand to invest, small towns can be the perfect opportunity for you to get your feet wet, and to start building your self storage empire. Thanks everybody, AJ 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 contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a storage facility deal. 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/  

What’s up everybody, welcome back to Self Storage Income. We’ve had a lot going on at our home office recently in regards to staffing, so that’s exactly what we’re going to cover in today’s podcast. Owning and operating a storage facility at its fullest potential is a lot different than most seem to think it is. The key words here are “operating a storage facility to its FULLEST POTENTIAL”. Sure, you can hire someone to sit there all day and watch TV, not train them on sales, maintenance, or anything else, but not long down the road, your self storage “cash cow” will be more like a dead cow. Not only that, so will any other facilities that you buy. If you want to succeed in storage, if you want to scale now and in the future, building the correct systems, processes, policies, and procedures is critical. These aspects are even more critical when you’re hiring and training employees. Today we’re going to go over the exact job description that we provide to our facility managers. It’s super important that your employees know what the job is and what your expectations are day to day, week to week, and month to month. Laying down those expectations and ensuring that your employees are achieving them is equally important. Another aspect to this, those same employees also need to have the training, support, and procedures to follow to help them succeed. These are all topics we cover today, so get your notebooks out, take note, and be ready to crush your self storage investing future. Thanks everybody, AJ

Welcome back everybody to Self Storage Income! Today’s episode comes from the overwhelming request to address this topic. Just this past week I was part of a webinar with several other real estate investors. We were interacting with the viewers who were asking us questions. The most common questions we were getting had to do with current opportunity. Everyone wants to know - is now a good time to invest? Is this slight downturn your opportunity to leap? Is this the 2008 you’ve been waiting for? I’m going to lay it out here in the show notes, the fallacy of this kind of thinking. Let’s just address this out of the gate - do not try to time markets. Trying to time markets only leads to missed opportunity and you ultimately never getting where you want to be. So if timing markets isn’t an option, then what is? How do we know when to buy and when to hold off? I’ll give you the answer right here and now - don’t time the markets, time your capital. I’ll cover that topic in depth in this episode. WE also take a deeper dive into the subject of knowing when to buy and when not to buy, where the opportunities are, and how to take advantage of them. As always, thanks for listening everybody. Keep sending us your feedback, suggestions, ideas, questions, and so on. We love hearing from you all and couldn’t be more excited to have you along for the ride. AJ