Why Self Storage Conventions Have Never Been More Important For Small Investors
OK… I have said before our industry is evolving fast, but now I really mean it. I can remember when I met the first person I ever knew in the self storage business. It was an Acquisition Director for a REIT in the mid-1990’s. He told me self storage was a boring...
My Top Three Predictions for the Self Storage Future
I realize I have been spending so much time keeping my eyes on the immediate self storage horizon over the past year. Given the world today, it is hard to look past the next month or six months. What the world will be like in a year is anyone’s guess. But let’s do...
Don’t Be Afraid of All the New Money Flowing Into the Self Storage Space
Just go to the Inside Self Storage new website, or go to the Radius Plus home page, and look at the headlines. Here are some headlines the day I write this: Argus Affiliate Brokers Announce Sale Of Multiple Georgia Self Storage Facilities. Southeast Florida Storage...
What the Balance of 2020 Will Most Likely Look Like for Self Storage
I have said it in other episodes, but the fortune-tellers of today are the ones who “interrupt data.” I could get the “data” to predict virtually any outcome I want. But with all this data flying around, it is hard not to predict what is coming...
Two Things the Coivd-19 Crisis Has Taught Me
As a real estate professional and a self storage owner/operator, I am now clear on two things that have emerged from the COVID-19: The office sector will never be the same. Self storage can be leased with minimal customer interaction. Office I am clear that as the...
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