by Mark Helm | Jun 5, 2020 | Self Storage Business Planning
In this age of increased self storage per capita in many submarkets across the nation, boat and RV parking may be a way to enter or expand. I have been hesitant to embrace this method and have fallen back on it when necessary. We had a two-building conversion project...
by Mark Helm | May 29, 2020 | Build Self Storage
I’ll admit it. I have never been a big fan of container self storage, or temporary storage. At best, I thought we could perhaps use it to plug up a few holes we may have in our facilities and maximize our income. When I first looked (a number of years ago I admit),...
by Mark Helm | May 22, 2020 | Buy Self Storage, Financial Analysis of Self Storage, Self Storage Business Planning
From attending a number of webinars, researching, and reading between the lines, here is the information I have been able to find out about our self storage industry’s performance last month (April 2020) in the “Age Of Coronavirus.” It was a mixed bag of contradictory...
by Mark Helm | May 15, 2020 | Buy Self Storage
As we have stated in the last few episodes, self storage appears to be positioned particularly well to perform better than other segments of the commercial real estate industry during COVID-19. In a recent Marcus & Millichap Special Report (M & M),...
by Mark Helm | May 8, 2020 | Buy Self Storage
I have said this in the past few weeks, and I am going to say it one more time. Now is the time to get off the sidelines and figure out how to get into self storage if this has been a goal for you. I am creating this episode right now primarily because of the training...
