by Mark Helm | Mar 29, 2019 | Self Storage Business Planning, Self Storage Management
I know most of us to turn over the marketing of our self-storage facilities to vendors to handle because, for many of us, it is a world we don’t want to figure out. It is really like learning a foreign language. Add the leavers and dials needed for marketing, it seems...
by Mark Helm | Mar 23, 2019 | Build Self Storage, Self Storage Management
In today’s reality of an overbuilt market in many parts of the country, it is important that we have a good strategy as an entry point or an expansion point into the self-storage business. I have discussed conversions in detail over the past few months. If you are...
by Mark Helm | Mar 11, 2019 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage, Self Storage Business Planning, Self Storage Management
I was reading an “Investor Survey” in the last half of 2018 provided by one of the large Commercial Real Estate companies. Not that these are exact numbers, but they do tend to point to a direction the industry is going. I have seen these surveys from three different...
by Mark Helm | Feb 21, 2019 | Build Self Storage, Buy Self Storage, Self Storage Management
If there was a self-storage soapbox, and I was standing on it, what you would have heard me say over the past few years was “Get a self-storage Feasibility Report!” Let’s discuss the feasibility reports. The first thing we should know about them is that we are very...
by Mark Helm | Feb 17, 2019 | Self Storage Business Planning, Self Storage Management
There has never been more of a need for us as business owners, self-storage owners and developers to operate from a “Prosperity Consciousness” as there is now. Actually, everyone to operate from “Prosperity Consciousness”. In reality, there are two belief systems we...
by Mark Helm | Feb 7, 2019 | Buy Self Storage, Self Storage Management, Self Storage Mindset
I have worked with lots of people getting in the self-storage business over the years. Hundreds of them. However, I’ve never had anyone ask this question before. It seems weird, but no one has asked me before “What does it take to be successful in the self-storage...
