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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...

Tariffs, Trade Areas, and Self-Storage: Lessons From the “Big Short” – Pt. 2

by Mark Helm | Aug 15, 2025 | Buy Self Storage

Last week, we started a conversation about what I’m seeing in the economy, what may be coming next, and how that changes our self-storage strategy, based on research I dug into after hearing Michael Litt speak. As a CCIM in commercial real estate, our state chapter...

Tariffs, Trade Areas, and Self-Storage: Lessons From the “Big Short”

by Mark Helm | Aug 8, 2025 | Buy Self Storage

Some dots have connected in my mind recently that are reshaping how I evaluate self-storage trade areas moving forward. Surprisingly, this insight came from digging into the lives and current work of the people who shorted subprime financial instruments during the...

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

The Four Metrics Every Self-Storage Operator Should Track Monthly

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

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

Tariffs, Trade Areas, and Self-Storage: Lessons From the “Big Short” – Pt. 2

Tariffs, Trade Areas, and Self-Storage: Lessons From the “Big Short”

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