Mark Helm, Author at Creating Wealth Through Self Storage

Do You Know The Value of A Customer At Your Facility?

by Mark Helm | Aug 19, 2019 | Self Storage Management, Self Storage Mindset

Self Storage is a retail play as much as a real estate play. I know the majority of us come from a real estate background, but believe me, if we are going to make it in this business today, we had better start thinking like a retailer. Or at least like a...

How Do I Know If A Market Is Overbuilt?

by Mark Helm | Aug 5, 2019 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage, Self Storage Management

Whatever city you are in, no matter where you go, you see new self-storage being built. Even people who have nothing to do with the industry, when they hear you are involved with self-storage in some way, will comment, “I see it going up everywhere.” All this leads us...

How Do I Know If A Market Is Overbuilt?

by Mark Helm | Jul 21, 2019 | Build Self Storage

Is Self-Storage Over Building Catastrophic?

by Mark Helm | Jul 15, 2019 | Self Storage Management

Is Self-Storage Over Building Catastrophic? Well, I guess it depends. It depends on where you are in the country, where you are in your submarket, but mostly where you are in your lease-up or ownership cycle of the facility. Look, it is bound to happen to every...

How To Analysis A Conversion in Self-Storage

by Mark Helm | Jul 7, 2019 | Buy Self Storage

I discussed in last weeks’ episode How To Analysis An Expansion self-storage opportunity. This week, let’s look at a conversion. When we say conversion, what I mean is we take an existing vacant building and convert it to self-storage. In my opinion, in today’s...