Mark Helm, Author at Creating Wealth Through Self Storage

How To Profitably Leverage Self Storage During Any Phase Of The Real Estate Cycle

by Mark Helm | Jun 8, 2018 | Self Storage Business Planning

I speak often about the oversupply of self storage in certain markets and how to position yourself to stay relevant in today’s market. My default setting is to assume that everyone has a real estate background and understands where we are in the current real...

How to Create a Marketing Plan For Your New Construction Self Storage Facility

by Mark Helm | Jun 1, 2018 | Self Storage Management

Many of us are building new self storage facilities (instead of Additions or Conversions) as the way to start or grow our self storage business. As more square footage hits the market, marketing has never been more important. In this episode, I’ll share what...

How to Perfect Your Self Storage Customer’s Journey for Increased Occupancy

by Mark Helm | May 26, 2018 | Self Storage Management

The days of simply opening your self storage facility every day and maintaining a 90% plus occupancy rate are over. For the last few years, all you needed was to have the power on and a functioning gate and you had high occupancy. Those days are over. The market is...

What Self Storage Investors Should Do in 2018 To Start Or Grow Our Business

by Mark Helm | May 18, 2018 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage

The self storage industry in the US has never been more varied than it is today. It’s all over the place. In Las Vegas rents are up 70%. In Denver, rents are down 5%. In Dallas, about 22% more square feet of self storage has hit the market in the form of new...

Habits for Success Series: The Final Ingredient for Self Storage Success

by Mark Helm | May 11, 2018 | Self Storage Mindset

As we conclude our series on the Habits for Success series, we’ll cover the final habit I’ve seen that people who successfully get in the self storage business possess. This last habit took me a while to flush out. I could see the difference between...