The podcast
with Mark Helm, CCIM
Self-storage investor and bestselling author Mark Helm shares what he has learned since 2000 about buying, building, converting and operating self-storage facilities. Practical, no-fluff episodes for small and first-time investors.
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200+ episodes since August 2021 · New episodes most weeks
The self-storage industry is evolving fast, and one of the biggest challenges we struggle with is financial modeling today. If you are in the acquisition business of self-storage, you have subscriptions to data platforms. We use the data to make assumptions such as rental rate, market health, how fast a project will absorb new square feet, etc. Next, we plow those assumptions into Excel or...
I will admit that a few years ago I was scared of competing in a market against REITs. Well, yes, they have a lot more money than I do,...
One of the advantages of being a smaller self-storage operator is that — unlike the REITs and larger players who focus on their investors...
As I look to the future, as I regularly do as a business owner, I realize that the self-storage business of the past will most likely not...
Let me tell you why I am not a big fan of large storage funds. I was recently reminded of this when I read an article in the ISS Newsfeed....
I don’t see owners utilizing landing pages that much anymore in online self-storage marketing, and I am not sure why. I suspect it is...
It has been a while since I used an SBA loan to develop some storage, but I am in a deal where we are using it now for a boat and RV...
I have made a lot of mistakes over my business career and done a few things right. Fortunately, it only takes a few good decisions, and...
As I move through some of the various deals I am involved with today, the markets and the deals themselves are changing at a very rapid...
I think trying to find off-market listings is hard as well today. As a storage owner, I get, on average, 10 texts a week, lots of letters...
We all know how AI is changing the self-storage landscape. Others smarter than me have talked about using chatbots for storage answering...
After over forty years in real estate and the self-storage business, I have learned a few things about business that I am sharing as I...
As I hover around the 500-episode mark, I am apparently becoming more philosophical and want to share some insights I have gained over the...
Episodes are general education, not investment advice. See the disclaimer.