Creating Wealth Through Self Storage
It’s the perfect business for the small investor. Self Storage is a unique real estate asset with intricate details.
Hi. I’m Mark Helm. I’m a commercial real estate agent who began specializing in self-storage beginning in the mid-1990s. By 2000, I had purchased my first self-storage project, and since then, I’ve had many ups and downs in real estate and self-storage specifically. I’ve made almost every mistake that can be made, yet through the mistakes, I have developed a system of analyzing and acquiring self-storage with a proven track record. As every entrepreneur discovers, just knowing something does not make the difference. To be truly successful in any endeavor or in life itself, one must confront the thing inside them that holds them back. It is a continual process of breaking oneself up and reforming so that what was not possible before is possible now…. Read More
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The most powerful tool out there for smaller investors to analyze self storage projects. If you want to know how well a property is going to perform and exactly what to pay for it, you need this tool!
Construction
Estimate all parts of your projects construction cost. Material, concrete, HVAC, the Storage World Analyzer has dozens of construction cost categories for you to estimate.
Debt Service
See how your financing strategy effects the overall profitability of your project.
Lease-up
Project cash flows based on monthly lease-up percentages.
Operating Expenses
Accurately predict and account for expenses like advertising, personal, and maintenance.
“The ability to take action when there is fear.”
Get started by viewing the hundreds of coaching episodes we make available for free on the Mark Helm Youtube channel.
The goal of Creating Wealth Through Self Storage is to share what I know about this industry and level the playing field between big buyers and small buyers like us.
Resources
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Self Storage Operating Systems
There are a lot of good programs out there and we have used several of them. We have recently converted all of our facilities over to Site Link.
Call Centers
Yes, we use call centers. Do you know why we use call centers? REITS use call centers. I try to piggy back off their research. I also track everything I can think of and depending on the facility, we usually get two to six rentals per month from using XPS Call Center. What I don’t like about call centers is they usually use a hard sell technique to set up appointments.
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