by Mark Helm | Jan 31, 2025 | Buy Self Storage
If you are in the self-storage business and trying to grow it, or if you have been trying to get in the business and it is going slowly, then this episode may be for you. But I will take a very different approach than most in the next couple of episodes concerning how...
by Mark Helm | Jan 24, 2025 | Buy Self Storage
If you are in the self-storage business and trying to grow it, or if you have been trying to get in the business and it is slowly going, then this episode may be for you. But I am going to take a very different approach than most in the next couple of episodes...
by Mark Helm | Jan 16, 2025 | Buy Self Storage
Often, we are dealing directly with the owner of a self-storage facility we are looking at buying. It is hard to get financials, unit mix, or anything to go on in the first few meetings or conversations to help us see a potential value or where any upside is. So, when...
by Mark Helm | Jan 10, 2025 | Buy Self Storage
I have worked with several self-storage investors who are now considering and undertaking mixed-use projects of self-storage and flex space. Flex space is the new shiny object for many smaller self-storage developers. As strange as it may sound, I worked for a...
by Mark Helm | Jan 3, 2025 | Buy Self Storage
Until the 2020s, as a self-storage owner and developer of smaller projects (i.e., not large multi-story projects), I never used the design-build process many people apparently use to start a development project or even an expansion. A “design-build”...