Mark Helm, Author at Creating Wealth Through Self Storage

Turnaround Playbook: 4 Steps I Use to Revive a Storage Facility

by Mark Helm | Oct 3, 2025 | Buy Self Storage

Every now and then one can find an existing self-storage facility with a lot of potential upside and be able to negotiate a price that allows you to realize it. But you need to be able to see it when it is there and know what your upside can be to negotiate it...

Self-Storage Startup Checklist – The First 4 Steps to Enter Self-Storage and Most Don’t Start Here

by Mark Helm | Sep 26, 2025 | Buy Self Storage

When entering the self-storage business, you are choosing to become an entrepreneur. In other words, you are starting your own business. This may sound like a simple statement, but if you have never been a business owner or if you have always had a “job” working for a...

The Four Metrics Every Self-Storage Operator Should Track Monthly

by Mark Helm | Sep 12, 2025 | Buy Self Storage

A few years ago, I wrote an episode and a download called the five KPI’s (key performance indicators). These are the five things I always said: if you keep your eye on them, you will have a great self-storage business. If interested, you can download it here. That...

Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Self-Storage Facility

by Mark Helm | Sep 5, 2025 | Buy Self Storage

Five Beginner Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Self-Storage Facility Let’s talk about five mistakes people are making when getting into the self-storage business today, especially people new to the business. Now I have made every one of them myself, so I will talk from...

Cap Rates, ROI, IRR – Which Matters Most in Self-Storage?

by Mark Helm | Aug 29, 2025 | Buy Self Storage

Even seasoned storage people sometimes get focused on the wrong metric when analyzing self-storage. If you’re new to self-storage, it can be hard to understand all the financial metric slang and acronyms and what one should really be focused on. Which one...