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Join Mat Sorensen and guest expert AJ Osborne (300M+ AUM) as they discuss investing in self-storage with personal funds and an IRA or 401k. In this webinar, we discuss:- Top 3 Reasons You Should Consider Investing in Self-Storage- Portfolio Case Studies- What Makes a Good Self-Storage Operator- Due Diligence, Underwriting, and Rates vs. Rents- Vacancy and Demographics- How Do I Get Started Investing in Self Storage?- Can I use an IRA or Solo 401k to Invest in Self Storage?About AJ: AJ is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and investor who owns and manages his self-storage portfolio of over $212 million of assets through his companies Cedar Creek Wealth, Bitterroot Holdings, and Clearwater Benefits.AJ owns and hosts the largest self-storage podcast, Self Storage Income. As an operator and private owner with over 1.2 million square feet of self-storage, AJ regularly keynotes at national conferences on operations related to investing in, buying, and managing self-storage facilities.

Caley has been blowing up in the Self Storage Space with AJ Osborne and the Team at Cedar Creek Wealth. I can't think of a team that deserves the success more than they do! In this episode we cover: The Journey into Self Storage Syndication Cashflow and Generational Wealth for LP's Syndicating As A Single Mom With 3 Kids Legacy Investing Mindset Self Storage As An Alternative To Multifamily An Exploding 3,000 Unit Portfolio Scaling The Internal Business and SOP's Capital Raising For Self Storage Branding and Conferences   cedarcreekwealth.com   Get your videos produced at pitchdecks.com like the Capital Raiser Show. If you would like to find out more about Family Office Capital Raising events you can visit lnkd.in/gD6mJ5gp Book a call with Ruben at calendly.com/rlgreth

In this episode, we are joined by Aj Osborne, an American entrepreneur, businessman, and investor who owns and manages his self-storage portfolio of over $212 million of assets through his companies Cedar Creek Wealth, Bitterroot Holdings, and Clearwater Benefits. Cedar Creek Capital is a vertically integrated real estate private equity firm specializing in acquiring, developing, and managing self-storage facilities. It drives shareholder values through operational synergies throughout their entities. Tune in to learn more!

Abundance through Instability and Loss with Homeschooler and Investment-Club Creator Emma Powell > Emma Powell is a wife, mother, homeschooler of 6, and commercial real estate investor in Utah who has been featured in Business Insider and who has appeared as guest on over 40 podcasts, including the BiggerPockets podcast. However, this is the first podcast where Emma was brought to tears.   Marcus Ross: From Pain and Divorce to Self-Discovery and Entrepreneurship with Purpose > Marcus Ross, founder and owner of Ready to Heal Counselling (now Men's Elevate Counseling), joins Jamie to discuss his journey from adversity to self-discovery, healing and purpose. Marcus shares how his own pain ignited a desire to help other men struggling with similar life challenges and inspired him to launch his business, Ready to Heal Counseling. He highlights the importance of being aware that children pattern their behavior and coping skills from what they see their parents exhibiting. Additionally, he explains why it is crucial for personal growth and emotional development to re-evaluate our choices and take responsibility for the unfavorable outcomes that occur in our relationships.   David Dodge: From Drugs and Crime to a Second Chance and $20k per Month from Rental Properties > David Dodge, real estate investor, coach, and host of the Discount Property Investor podcast, joins Jamie to discuss his journey from drugs, crime and facing time in prison to becoming a successful real estate investor with 90 rental properties and counting. The tragedy and trials faced during the first two decades of his life positioned him to maximize his second chance and develop into a wholesaling and discount property investing expert.   Dan Haberkost: Shedding a Scarcity Mindset and Finding Success in Land Investing by Age 26 > Dan Haberkost, CEO of Front Range Land, joins Jamie to discuss how he overcame the fear-based scarcity mindset he developed in his childhood and has become a successful land investor and developer at only 26 years old. Having the wrong money mindset can be crippling and he shares what's required to override it with an abundance mindset to experience financial freedom.   From Scarcity to Abundance through Real Estate with Millionaire Immigrant, Veteran, and Author Maricela Soberanes > Maricela Soberanes, principal at UP Plex Capital, apartment syndicator and author, joins Jamie to discuss her remarkable journey from poverty and scarcity in Mexico to privilege and abundance in America. She shares how her real estate journey began in 2006 investing in a single family home and has expanded into owning multiple apartments in five states with her husband.   From Life Support and Job Loss to Starting Businesses from a Wheelchair with Self-Storage Expert AJ Osborne > AJ Osborne, founder and CEO of Cedar Creek Wealth, joins Jamie to discuss his success investing in self-storage and the health scare that altered his life overnight. As a pioneer in the self-storage industry since 2004, he expounds on the potential for growth and expansion in the industry. He also shares how he balances his many successes with the frightening reality he faced at age 33 when he suddenly became paralyzed and on life support due to a rare autoimmune disorder.   Climbing Rocks -- Not the Corporate Ladder: How and Why Kevin Dahlstrom Walked Away from a 7-Figure Job > Kevin Dahlstrom, founder of Swell, joins Jamie to discuss how he escaped a tumultuous upbringing, overcame a decade-long health challenge, and achieved the career success that millions dream of. Yet, it was at the height of his career when he experienced a level of unfulfillment he couldn't ignore. Despite warnings from his friends and family, he decided to leave his corporate career behind, move his family to Colorado, and do a life reset. After a few short weeks of retirement, Kevin founded Swell, a financial app that aims to revolutionize traditional banking and helps its community grow their wealth.   How Brian Davies Redefined His Purpose through Severe Health Challenges and Played for the USA Amputee Hockey Team > Former college athlete Brian Davies joins Jamie to discuss how an unpredictable illness derailed his career and led him to face the toughest physical and mental challenges of his life. He even lost his lower leg. He reveals the impact isolation can have and why it's important to have a support system of family and friends to help us overcome the obstacles we face in life. The world offers us all a lot of opportunities and sharing our story with others is one that we must take full advantage of. Brian firmly believes it is the stories that others will tell about us and how we've impacted their lives that will live on and help more people than we can imagine.   From Living in Her Car to Living on Her Own Island and Making a Global Impact with Britnie Turner > Britnie Turner, founder of Aerial Group, joins Jamie to discuss how she started her career living in her car and now lives, runs seven companies, and operates a resort on a private island located in the British Virgin Islands committed to helping people heal and discover their purpose in life. Starting with no real estate experience she worked tirelessly to build a successful real estate business that would allow her to help suffering children around the world. She shares how we all have a purpose in life, why it's imperative that we challenge our concept of what's normal and push ourselves to do great things that will have a positive impact on the lives of other people. She firmly believes that problems are something we can't escape in life and should aim to learn and grow from them every day.   Still Standing, Still Smiling: How John Kriesel Lives with Purpose and Joy After a Near-Death Experience in Iraq > John Kriesel, motivational speaker at Still Standing LLC, joins Jamie to discuss how a near-death IED attack in Iraq changed his life forever. After losing two of his best friends and as well as both of his legs, he realized the value in getting a second chance at life and committed himself to live purposefully and helping others do the same. Despite the adversities faced on the battlefield and going through a divorce, he credits them for making him stronger, enabling him to meet his wife, and living a life that he enjoys. Even though there may be things in our past we wish were different, John shares why he is a firm advocate of living life with no regrets.   Finding Culinary and Real Estate Success After Military Service Left him Blind and Deaf with Aaron Hale > Aaron Hale, U.S. military veteran, entrepreneur, and real estate investor, joins Jamie to discuss how he overcame losing his sight from an IED explosion in Afghanistan. He goes on to describe how, after several years of rehabilitation, he contracted bacterial meningitis, which also almost killed him but did cost him his hearing. Despite all the struggles and the darkness that he faced with this extreme adversity, he never let it define him. Among many other successful ventures, Aaron went on to create Extra Ordinary Delights, a fudge and chocolate company. He is now a proud husband and father of three, as well as successful business owner and real estate investor. He shares his incredible journey and explains why he is not afraid to fail. 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Building a storage facility requires an in-depth look into the rapidly changing economic market. We get asked all the time - is it a good time to buy? Is this a good place to build? Inflation is rising, should I reconsider my projects? In this episode, we're bringing in Melissa Anderson & Hamish Bell from Forge Building Company. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in the self storage industry with as much building and storage development experience. They monitor and keep a close pulse on the Self Storage industry because they have been doing it for well over a decade, with hundreds of facilities built. If anyone understands what's going on in the market, it's them! In fact, Forge has helped us build many of our storage facilities in all types of different markets, and have saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on ONE deal alone. You'll want to stick around for all the juicy insights in this episode! Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout to jumpstart your development project. Find out more: https://forgebuildings.com/podcast Remember to SUBSCRIBE for our upcoming episodes - we have a roster of all-star guests you won't want to miss! Be sure to check out our partners: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

Raising money for real estate deals can seem overly complex. It's not easy to raise hundreds of thousands - even millions - of dollars for your investment or private equity deal. When it comes to raising capital, there's many ways to do it. There are private equity funds, hedgefunds, syndications, and more. How do you know what to use, and, more importantly, how to use them? So we're inviting Bridger Pennington, the cofounder of Fund Launch and the host of the Investment Funds Secrets podcast. Check out his website: https://www.fundlaunch.com/ Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge Building Company is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. They are AJ's go-to building contractor for all things self-storage, who has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone. Find out more: https://forgebuildings.com/podcast Be sure to check out our partners! Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

Things change at an incredible pace. The economy, interest rates, inflation...how do you compensate for such a volatile financial environment? We always talk about passive income and how it can help you achieve financial freedom, but a common mistake made is trying to predict the future based on the past. Associating the cost of a current investment with the value of a prospective one is not only risky, but it's also dangerous. With today's guest, Braedon Haertling, we discuss how Storage is affected by environmental factors and how he was able to overcome a void in his other ventures by starting out in Self Storage. He is incredibly busy during his years in school studying to become a physician's assistant, but he never gave up on his desire to be in real estate. He eventually pivoted to commercial and storage, and we're glad to have him on in this episode to discuss what he learned and his experience starting out. Find Braedon on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thestoragemat The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value-engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

Developing a self storage facility is no easy feat. What are some of the factors to consider and mistakes to avoid? I'm not talking about making typos in a text message, I'm talking about mistakes that could cost you thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of dollars in your next development. We're continuing our conversation with Ryan Lorenzini in this episode. This is part 2 of 2 of this series. I'd check out the previous episode first if you haven't already! Ryan is the Director of The Claremont Companies, who specialize in real estate developments and has been building Self Storage for the last 10 years. Check it out: https://www.claremontco.com The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value-engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

As you know, we've had some pretty incredible guests here on Self Storage Income, but I have to be honest here… I'm extra excited for our guest today. Meet my friend and fellow self storage investor Ryan Lorenzini. Ryan is also the Director of The Claremont Companies. Ryan became familiar with property development initially through home building. Fast forward to today and The Claremont Companies develop and operate a number real estate asset classes including self storage. He's an absolute wealth of knowledge when it comes to property development and market analysis when looking at the viability of a self storage project. This being said, we of course talk a lot on the podcast today about self storage development. In fact, this episode is part 1 of 2 of this discussion. Stayed tuned for the second part, where we follow up on a lot of the ideas introduced in this one. Self storage development questions easily rank in the top three questions I get consistently. So many people have land or even have a storage facility with expansion potential, or are even looking to go full fledged self storage developer. All said and done, the questions are the same - everyone wants to know whether to buy or to build, people want to know how much it costs to develop, and everyone wants concrete answers when it comes to potential development projects. We'll today, we touch on every single one of these talking points and Ryan shares his years of experience and insight to help add clarity to the ever complex process of development. As you've heard me mention, the opportunity for self storage development is huge right now - the key? Doing it right! Tune in, take note, and you'll be well on your way to better understanding the self storage development process. Be sure to check out Ryan's company and keep up with all the great work him and his team are doing on their website: https://www.claremontco.com The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value-engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

Welcome back to the Self Storage Income podcast! The current level of inflation is out of control. With the Fed desperately trying to hedge against it by raising interest, we might be headed into, if not already in, another recession. As we mentioned in last week's episode, the market is shifting, and capital is getting more expensive. Consumer sentiments are changing as people become more frugal and increase savings. But then why did we just buy 23 facilities? All at once?? How is that even possible? Let's talk about it in this week's episode. You might have noticed that we're adding a new segment to our podcast: Comment of the Week! This is where we read one of YOUR comments posted on our social platforms – like YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, etc. – or a review from this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher. As much as we love sharing our knowledge and our success stories, we also love hearing the stories and feedback from you, so we're sharing them here on the podcast. Thanks for your support! ---- WE'RE HIRING - if you think you'd be a great fit for the Cedar Creek Team, contact me here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/contact The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast!    We recently did a podcast titled - 'The Deals Are Coming Back'... if you haven't listened to that episode, you should. It complements this episode we have lined up for you today.    The self storage and real estate market as a whole is shifting. But before you lose your mind thinking things are going to "crash" (I don't believe they are), hear me out - there's going to be more buying opportunity in the next couple of years in self storage than there possibly ever has been. This is super exciting. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows.    Yes there are, and will continue to be incredible self storage investing opportunities - however, this does not come without risk. That's why today I wanted to share with you all the incredible self storage investing opportunities that I see coming down the line. And of course, I want to share with you all the risks and pitfalls that I'm looking at and paying attention to as well. The reality is - no one knows exactly what is going to happen and as Jocko Willink would say, "The enemy always gets a vote.", Meaning there will always be risks to mitigate and manage.    Outside of this, we talk about the ebbs and flows of the overall economy and the markets and what I'm doing to plan for the long term. Self Storage Investing isn't slowing down any time soon and neither am I! Now let's go get some deals!    Thanks everybody,  AJ       WE'RE HIRING - if you think you'd be a great fit for the Cedar Creek Team, contact me here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/contact Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! We recently did a podcast titled - 'The Deals Are Coming Back'... if you haven't listened to that episode, you should. It complements this episode we have lined up for you today. The self storage and real estate market as a whole is shifting. But before you lose your mind thinking things are going to "crash" (I don't believe they are), hear me out - there's going to be more buying opportunity in the next couple of years in self storage than there possibly ever has been. This is super exciting. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows. Yes there are, and will continue to be incredible self storage investing opportunities - however, this does not come without risk. That's why today I wanted to share with you all the incredible self storage investing opportunities that I see coming down the line. And of course, I want to share with you all the risks and pitfalls that I'm looking at and paying attention to as well. The reality is - no one knows exactly what is going to happen and as Jocko Willink would say, "The enemy always gets a vote.", Meaning there will always be risks to mitigate and manage. Outside of this, we talk about the ebbs and flows of the overall economy and the markets and what I'm doing to plan for the long term. Self Storage Investing isn't slowing down any time soon and neither am I! Now let's go get some deals! Thanks everybody, AJ WE'RE HIRING - if you think you'd be a great fit for the Cedar Creek Team, contact me here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/contact Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Software is one of the things that the Self Storage industry desperately needs. From automating simple operations like entry gates to helping address customer issues in a quick, efficient, and contactless way. I know, "AI" and "Machine Learning" and the like are basically buzzwords at this point. But actually applying them in a meaningful way that makes a difference in your business is what really matters. Today we are discussing the possibilities with AI and system automations with co-founders Mason Levy and Rodolfo Ramirez from Swivl.ai. They integrate technologies similar to Siri and Alexa with websites and point-of-contact systems within Self Storage. What can a software program like this do for you? It can help keep track of inventory, customer service, gate code assistance, bill pay, and much more. The goal is to improve efficiency and time spent by both customers and employees. You are able to serve customers quicker with less repetition and downtime. You can reallocate your employee's time to really maximize that efficiency in a variety of different areas. You can find out more about the Swivl AI at https://tryswivl.com ---- WE'RE HIRING - if you think you'd be a great fit for the Cedar Creek Team, contact me here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/contact The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

As you could imagine, I get a ton of questions about all things self storage investing (just look at the comments section on my YouTube channel lol), but one question I get a ton is how much money do I need to invest in self storage? And how do I get money to invest in self storage? Like so many others, most of us just don't have an extra million dollars or several million dollars just sitting around waiting to be invested. And you clearly can't invest without capital. I'm going to let you in on a little secret - NO ONE has enough money on their own to invest and grow a company as quickly and effectively as those raising capital. You simply cannot scale quickly enough on your own. Why do you think these large private equity companies do capital raises? Why do you think companies go public? But raising money or bringing in partners isn't the only way to close great self storage deals. You can also seller finance. The fact is, you can invest in self storage without a dollar of your own money. Quit focusing on the sale price and the money - focus on finding a great deal and then build the deal with partners, with conventional financing, or through creative financing such as seller financing. We take a deep dive in today's episode to talk all things financing to help get you off on the right track to building your own amazing self storage deal. WE'RE HIRING - if you think you'd be a great fit for the Cedar Creek Team, contact me here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/contact ---- The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

As you could imagine, I get a ton of questions about all things self storage investing (just look at the comments section on my YouTube channel lol), but one question I get a ton is how much money do I need to invest in self storage? And how do I get money to invest in self storage?    Like so many others, most of us just don't have an extra million dollars or several million dollars just sitting around waiting to be invested. And you clearly can't invest without capital. I'm going to let you in on a little secret - NO ONE has enough money on their own to invest and grow a company as quickly and effectively as those raising capital. You simply cannot scale quickly enough on your own.    Why do you think these large private equity companies do capital raises? Why do you think companies go public?    But raising money or bringing in partners isn't the only way to close great self storage deals. You can also seller finance.    The fact is, you can invest in self storage without a dollar of your own money. Quit focusing on the sale price and the money - focus on finding a great deal and then build the deal with partners, with conventional financing, or through creative financing such as seller financing.    We take a deep dive in today's episode to talk all things financing to help get you off on the right track to building your own amazing self storage deal.    Thanks everybody, AJ WE'RE HIRING - if you think you'd be a great fit for the Cedar Creek Team, contact me here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/contact Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income Podcast where we talk all things self storage investing! This is your host, AJ Osborne! It's been a crazy moment the past few years for the self storage industry. Valuations were through the roof, there was crazy stupid money being thrown every which way into deals that would never pencil in reality, billions have been invested into the industry by major institutions, the list goes on and on. However, this is all about to change, and it's already happening. Deals are falling out of contract, capital is beginning to retreat slightly, values are on their way to returning to some kind of normalcy again, and competition in acquisition is declining, all great things for the self storage industry. But what does this mean for you as a self storage investor? This means - you better be ready for all the great deals coming down the pipeline. You better have your team and your resources ready to find, secure, and close on self storage deals. You'll find in the coming months that deals will be easier and easier to come across and sellers will be much more willing to work with you. We cover all these aspects in todays podcast and share some ways that you too can prepare and ready yourself to be able to capitalize on the amazing opportunity that's right around the corner (not to say there isn't great opportunity right now). Tune in, take note, and get ready to invest in some self storage deals! ---- The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income Podcast where we talk all things self storage investing! This is your host, AJ Osborne!    It's been a crazy moment the past few years for the self storage industry. Valuations were through the roof, there was crazy stupid money being thrown every which way into deals that would never pencil in reality, billions have been invested into the industry by major institutions, the list goes on and on. However, this is all about to change, and it's already happening.    Deals are falling out of contract, capital is beginning to retreat slightly, values are on their way to returning to some kind of normalcy again, and competition in acquisition is declining, all great things for the self storage industry. But what does this mean for you as a self storage investor?    This means - you better be ready for all the great deals coming down the pipeline. You better have your team and your resources ready to find, secure, and close on self storage deals. You'll find in the coming months that deals will be easier and easier to come across and sellers will be much more willing to work with you.    We cover all these aspects in todays podcast and share some ways that you too can prepare and ready yourself to be able to capitalize on the amazing opportunity that's right around the corner (not to say there isn't great opportunity right now).    Tune in, take note, and get ready to invest in some self storage deals!  Thanks everybody! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! We've got a special guest episode lined up for you all today that I couldn't be more happy to share with you. Give a huge welcome to the self storage boss herself, Tiffannee Boss. Tiffannee started off in the real estate investment journey like a lot of us. She was reading the real estate books and listening to real estate podcasts, and figured she would start off investing in multi-family. This suddenly changed one day when she heard yours truly on the Bigger Pockets podcast talking about the incredible opportunity of self storage investing. From that day on, she's been laser focused on self storage and she's been absolutely crushing it. She's invested passively, partnered with others on deals, and recently took down a deal solo. That said, she is an absolute wealth of knowledge for any of you who are just getting started on your self storage investing journey, and this is a podcast you won't want to miss. She shares her entire story from start to finish - how she's built key relationships with lenders, owners, and partners, how she found her first deal, and the keys to success that she's used to build her investing momentum. These are the same keys we use in my business even today, and these are the same tools that you too can use to build your self storage portfolio. Keep in touch with Tiffannee: Email: tiffboss13@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_storage_boss/?hl=en ---- The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! As you might know, we get some pretty phenomenal guests here on the podcast who are experts in self storage investing, managing, and all things self storage honestly. But today is a special guest episode with a good friend of mine who just might have some of the most valuable and actionable insights into the self storage market that you can find. It's my pleasure to welcome back Cory Sylvester, principle of DXD Capital and one of the founders and creators of the widely used and popular Radius+ self storage market analysis platform. Needless to say, Cory has an incredible amount of data at his finger tips and is one of the most well informed individuals on the planet in regards to self storage markets everywhere. That said, this is exactly what we're going to dive into on today's podcast. We talk markets, the impact of interest rates and macro level metrics, developments versus acquisitions, and he even shares the economic metrics that he's paying the closest attention to. As you all know, we're in uncharted waters here when looking at the macro level economy. We need to be prepared for the unexpected, the worst case scenario, and we need to be able to thrive at the same time - the invaluable information that Corey shares in this episode will help you achieve that. Check out DXD Capital at: https://dxd.capital/ And give yourself the advantage with Radius+ here: https://www.radiusplus.com/ ---- The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company. Forge is our go-to building contractor for all things self-storage. In AJ's words "Forge has saved us literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on one deal alone through their ability to value engineer, improving our facility at the same time." Exclusive to SSI listeners, Forge is offering a FREE consultation and Complimentary Site Layout. Get in touch with Forge here: - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast The Self Storage Income Podcast is also sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Want to invest in storage without dealing with the day-to-day operations and management? Learn more about our syndication company Cedar Creek Wealth here: https://www.cedarcreekwealth.com/ Investing in real estate is like climbing a mountain, depending on where you are on your journey, you need a different set of tools and resources so you can grow. That's why we created The Circle - the go-to real estate investment community to help people grow and scale in real estate. Find out more here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best-selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne!    As you might know, we get some pretty phenomenal guests here on the podcast who are experts in self storage investing, managing, and all things self storage honestly. But today is a special guest episode with a good friend of mine who just might have some of the most valuable and actionable insights into the self storage market that you can find.    It's my pleasure to welcome back Cory Sylvester, principle of DXD Capital and one of the founders and creators of the widely used and popular Radius+ self storage market analysis platform.    Needless to say, Cory has an incredible amount of data at his finger tips and is one of the most well informed individuals on the planet in regards to self storage markets everywhere. That said, this is exactly what we're going to dive into on today's podcast.    We talk markets, the impact of interest rates and macro level metrics, developments versus acquisitions, and he even shares the economic metrics that he's paying the closest attention to. As you all know, we're in uncharted waters here when looking at the macro level economy. We need to be prepared for the unexpected, the worst case scenario, and we need to be able to thrive at the same time - the invaluable information that Corey shares in this episode will help you achieve that.    Check out DXD Capital at: https://dxd.capital/   And give yourself the advantage with Radius+ here: https://www.radiusplus.com/ Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne!    We've got a special guest episode lined up for you all today that I couldn't be more happy to share with you. Give a huge welcome to the self storage boss herself, Tiffannee Boss.    Tiffannee started off in the real estate investment journey like a lot of us. She was reading the real estate books and listening to real estate podcasts, and figured she would start off investing in multi-family. This suddenly changed one day when she heard yours truly on the Bigger Pockets podcast talking about the incredible opportunity of self storage investing.    From that day on, she's been laser focused on self storage and she's been absolutely crushing it. She's invested passively, partnered with others on deals, and recently took down a deal solo.    That said, she is an absolute wealth of knowledge for any of you who are just getting started on your self storage investing journey, and this is a podcast you won't want to miss.    She shares her entire story from start to finish - how she's built key relationships with lenders, owners, and partners, how she found her first deal, and the keys to success that she's used to build her investing momentum. These are the same keys we use in my business even today, and these are the same tools that you too can use to build your self storage portfolio.    Keep in touch with Tiffannee:  Email: tiffboss13@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_storage_boss/?hl=en Thanks everybody,  AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Forge Building Company - https://forgebuildings.com/podcast Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/  

AJ Osborne is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and investor who owns and manages his self-storage portfolio of over $212 million of assets through his companies Cedar Creek Wealth, Bitterroot Holdings, and Clearwater Benefits. He's the owner and host of the largest self-storage podcast, Self-Storage Income. As an operator and private owner with over 1.2 million square feet of self-storage, he regularly keynotes at national conferences on operations related to investing in, buying, and managing self-storage facilities. AJ specialized in developing, converting, and turning around underperforming facilities with a value-add strategy, and loves to show other entrepreneurs and investors how to focus on technology and self-storage automation. To learn more or to connect with AJ, tune in to today's podcast where he covers mindset shifts that we can be making as investors, as well as what we should be aware of if we're interested in getting into the self-storage industry. Episode Links: https://www.ajosborne.com/ https://www.selfstorageincome.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ajosborne/?hl=en --- Transcript Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Michael: Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the Remote Real Estate Investor. I'm Michael Albaum, and today I'm joined by AJ Osborne, who is a maniac in the self-storage industry, absolutely killing it and he's going to be talking to us today about some mindset shifts that we can be making as investors, as well as what we should be aware of if we're interested in getting into the self-storage industry, so let's get into it.   AJ Osborne, what's going on, man? Thanks so much for coming to hang out with me today. Appreciate it.   AJ: Thanks for having me on, I appreciate it. This is gonna be fun though.   Michael: It's gonna be a lot of fun, I'm really looking forward to it. So I know a little bit about your background. I know you spoke very recently at the BP conference in Denver, Colorado in the spring. Give us all the quick background, who you are, where you come from, what is it you're doing in real estate today?   AJ: Yeah, so I'm up here in Boise, Idaho. I'm like, I don't know, like sixth generation Idaho and my family came and we're herding sheep over the mountains here and we grew up to see the big change that's happened in Idaho, which has been crazy over the last 20 years. But my dad grew up in extreme poverty in the southern, I mean, nothing like no running water, like poached to eat. They didn't have you know, they took baths with a pot of hot water to try that they boil over the fired. Try to get it like poverty that, you know, we don't, nobody knows that America today, right doesn't even exist anymore and that wasn't that long ago. He's only 64 years, so he's not even that old. Yeah nut when he was growing up, you know, he had it really brought this father died and early and so he married my mom and he wanted to get out of that. So he started selling insurance and then I grew up and I followed in his footsteps and I sold insurance too and we did that for a long time and you know, I quickly realized that selling insurance is awesome. I loved it, it taught me so much broke away.   But it I called it the treadmill, you know, you got to run, you got to run hard and the end of the day just didn't feel like we're going anywhere and it was like, You know what happens when this treadmill stops. So we started to really invest in real estate. In a big way, after a wait, we started in prior 2004-2005 and then we stopped in 2006/ 7 because things didn't make sense, started back up in 2010-11 and we have been building ever since then I but we like the asset class self-storage. When we got into self-storage, it was very much looked down upon people were like, you want a junkyard? My has that changed today. So storage is so hot and seems like every investor wants in and wants a piece of it. That that's not at all how it was when we started, banks didn't want to give us money. You didn't know really what to do with them. But we liked them because it was more of a BIST business than real estate. That made a lot more sense to me. I don't even view myself as a real estate investor. We own and operate businesses and that's our approach we took to self-storage. We didn't take the approach of traditional real estate, things that people viewed and hold it standards on valuations like cap rates, things like that. I couldn't tell you what a cap rate was on any property that I've ever bought, don't have any clue. We just fundamentally looked at it differently. We focused on revenue, only improving those revenues and cash flows due to operations technology, training and we needed because we didn't have anybody to manage these assets. We had to manage them ourselves.   There was no third party management at the time and that meant we needed to get our velocity of money, meaning we needed to turn our money over. We didn't want to have it trapped because we needed it to grow. But at the same time we had to pay for the management. So we needed the cash flow. So our strategy became that we would buy really underperforming assets, we turn them around, we'd have a capital event at the refinance time and that would give us our money back plus profit to go redeploy it, but we still would have the asset. We still own it. It was still making money and it could pay for everything we needed to and we did that out of necessity and so we grew that way and We did really well and that models worked very, very well for us and we did that for a long time. I became paralyzed from head to toe about five years ago and I was working for major brokerage firm out of Chicago $40 billion company or something like that I can remember and I was let go in the hospital, but I didn't need to worry about it because we had our real estate and I was put on life support at the hospital, I was put into a coma, then put on life support for months and then I had to relearn how to do everything.   I had to relearn how to talk, I'd relearn how to eat, oh, my god, occupational therapy, speech therapy, everything else in between and I spent the following. Six months from the time I got into the hospital, trying to learn all that kind of stuff, again, going home, paralyzed, and just kind of relearning things from scratch and it, you know, it obviously changed the direction of my life, for obvious reasons. But as well, it really changed the way that I view investing and financial security and wealth, and income and from there, we thought, you know, this is really important. I'm like, we need to share this with the rest of the world. So we started to allow investors to come in and invest with us alongside us. We started different things like podcasts, we do it, we just need to openly share information and that kind of became my passion, financial independence and, and education. Overall, my wife started a school that blew up, she has hundreds of students, it's OK through high school that focuses very largely on economic functions a way the world works and financial literacy and I started to do three companies out of my wheelchair and we've just been going strong sense. So that's yeah, so I am, that's what I do.   Michael: That is amazing, AJ, and I mean, there's just so much there to unpack but before we even get there, I mean, before we hit record here, I was telling you how good you were looking and I had no idea that you were paralyzed, so you've clearly come a long way. Good for you, man. That's, that's amazing.   AJ:   Thank you. It's been a long, long road, but been very, very fortunate and the gains that we've seen and had so not over yet, I still have paralysis in my lower legs, I still have pain, because my nerves were destroyed. So I have to deal with that but I mean, it's not that point complain about where we couldn't be happier with what I have to deal with, we do that as a blessing. So it's, you know, we are just so fortunate and excited to be doing what we're doing.   Michael: Awesome. So talk to us a little bit about kind of the new perspective that you got on investing that you had as a result of being paralyzed. What was that, like?   AJ: I think I didn't realize probably the entire position of where I was at in life, what that meant, and tell that happened and that changed the way I viewed my own position, maybe the value that I inherently had, and the knowledge and things that we could do and it also changed kind of the idea where it was like, you know, at the end of the day, we all stop working at some point in society, we call this retirement and I didn't have really a choice and when that happened to me, and it the whole idea of it just kind of became a little silly, to me, this this path that we came on and this idea of risk that, you know, entrepreneurship or investing is risky and I'm like, but it doesn't make sense when I think actually probably having a job is the riskiest thing you could do.   It's a single point of failure, so meaning you have no control over that income or that revenue at all and it's one single point that everything else is predicated on. So the moment it's gone, everything else falls apart, right? It's not diversified you so you have no control. It has no you don't own the source or the means you aren't diversified. It's, you know, I'm like that's, that's the risk. That's the risk right there and it was something I obviously always knew, but I interpreted it in a very different way and I thought there is no reason why people shouldn't be participant eating in the economy, and we have to change people from being economic consumers to economic participants and that's how we're supposed to be. This idea of us being economic consumers and holding a job is actually relatively new in society. This isn't something that has been around for a long time. The idea of retirement is no, I don't believe in it, I will never retire, like, what am I supposed to do? Go sit on a beach.   If I'm retiring, I'm dying, right? You know, we're supposed to do things that give us purpose, and we're supposed to be participants, and we're supposed to be delivering value to society and if you're not, you should really start to think about what the heck you're doing with life because you can tell people feel fulfilled, and it's in who we are. As humans we want to be busy, we want to work, we want to be participating. We are not meant to sit around and watch Netflix, we are not meant to not be in control of our lives. Yeah, that's we're not meant for that and we've seen in society, particularly over the past 20 years where, although problems across society have tanked. Like we have this viewpoint that there's so many problems in society today and that's just unequivocally not true. I mean, everything from murderers to it, just name it any metric you can think of in society, and we are 10 times better off than we were 50 years ago. We are you go back 150 years ago, and there's nobody I don't think anybody could survive. That's alive today, just 150 years ago, right, and you keep going back, and you're just like, wow, us as humans, we live so differently in such a very short period of time and yet, during this time, of incredible prosperity, and during this time of incredible lack of risk in anything, I mean, anything, you we live so long, you there financial safety nets in this country, are crazy to even think about, and yet mental health has skyrocketed and people are unhappier than they've ever been and when you start to look at these problems, it's because people lack purpose and they lack drive, and they lack control and, and it's we're not meant to be like that and I think when you look at financial independence and financial prosperity, it's about dealing with means like it's not money, it's just means like, money is this weird intangible thing that makes no sense at all and people give different meaning to it, depending on their own experiences, or whatever, it's but it's nothing, it's just debt, all money is debt. Paper money is a fraction of anything we even have everything else is ones and zeros on a computer.   All it is, is a means to accomplish something and it's crazy that no one knows how to use this means it would be the equivalent of you know, a few 100 years ago, you're not understanding how to grow food or hunt, you're dead. You just die, right? Like, and so if this is a means or a tool that we have, yet society, we don't know how to work within it. We don't know how to function it. It's not taught. It's not. And I think that makes so many people feel out of control. They feel helpless and they're stuck in this position that, you know, we just weren't meant to be in and so I get, I got really passionate about this stuff, and rethinking you know, what we're doing and why we're doing it and we're made to be creators and we're, you know, we are made to be driving after our passion to take care of each other. That's just so core and fundamental to our being and I want people to have that power, to feel that they are driving towards a purpose that they're caring for the ones that they love and they have the ability to do that and in today's modern society, that's an economic function.   It's not a natural function, which thank goodness, it's not because if it was a natural function, that means you would have to be the biggest and strongest to really accomplish that, right and if it was a natural function, I'd be dead long fires because I would never, I would have never been put into a coma I would have just died. So you know, it we have to rethink in today's society, all of that, and it just seems like nobody is and our school systems are failing. Clearly they're failing and society where we're concerned with things that don't matter and it's, it's making us all very unhappy and we don't we don't need to be like that.   Michael: Kind of, in that same vein, AJ, you have a little bit of a different view on leverage, wondering if you could talk to us a little bit about what that is.   AJ: Yeah. So leverage is a very interesting thing. When you look at when we're talking about creation, right? Leverage, leverage is synonymous qith capital, and it shouldn't be because no matter what you do in life, you're leveraging something. We leverage each other, we leverage knowledge, we leverage time we leverage resources, right and leverage is a component that we all have to use. We have to, you cannot do everything by yourself. That doesn't exist this idea, I think that we have these stereotypical entrepreneurs that were like, oh, I started in my garage, and now I'm a billionaire, right? It's just all by myself.       Michael: I did all by myself, right?   AJ: That's never happened once. That's not how it happens and I also think that that makes people feel really inadequate because they're like, Well, I'm not like that and you're, of course, you're not because nobody is right now.   Michael: Have you read Outliers?   AJ: No.   Michael: Oh, it's such a good book, it talks about things like exactly this point about, like the circumstances surrounding all of these people's rise from seeming, you know, rags to riches, and there's so much more there than meets the eye that that isn't talked about. So for anyone listening, if you're feeling that way, check out the book, Outliers. Great read, super interesting.   AJ: Well, and, you know, I felt that way and I think a lot of people do and it's a component of marketing. You know, aside the idea that Steve Jobs created apple, and he was just this Renegade, that, you know, it's a great marketing ploy, but it's not at all and, you know, you're gonna have a lot of haters out there for saying this, but it's just the truth. Venture Capitalist had way more to do with Apple success, and Steve Jobs rights than he ever did. You know, he was working on nothing in a garage. Like, it's not like they were really building a business. They were toying around with something and a venture capitalist was driving by saw them and said, hey, why don't I actually make this into something and that's how Apple came to be and then he went back, and he had all of their resources and their tools and their employees, and they really built something from nothing. But that's what it takes. It takes way more than you, you aren't enough. You never will be enough and that's okay. That's not a bad thing. People say that. And then they get upset and I'm like, don't win when you use this like, hurrah, hurrah stuff of No, I am good enough. No, I am I can accomplish anything.   You always feel let down and actually does great damage because you're not, you never will be, and no one is. And so like, you need like, you need to be totally okay and understanding that you're not like, why would you think that you are? We can't do everything all the time? I don't think I am and because I realized that when I hear that voice in the back of my head that says, AJ, you can't do this. Instead of saying, Oh, shut up, I can write that's pride. First of all, I actually lean into it, say, okay, you're right. Why, so I either need to find someone, or something that can help me accomplish this, because this isn't either a natural skill set that I possess. Now, I can either really take the time to learn it and do it. But if you had to do that, for every single thing, you would be stuck. You would never function in life or society. And so it's like, nope, lean into those, though your insecurities is the voice of reason. That's a good thing, right? I'm a dyslexic ADHD kid, right?   Do you think that I really care and think that I have to be able to spell to function in life? No, it's not something I'm going to work on my brain doesn't work like that. I don't need to worry about it. It's I find somebody else that can do those things and move on. Those insecurities are actually just things that are telling you, hey, you need to improve here, or you need to figure out ways around it. Listen to him, don't fight them, say great, thank you, and then get to work. But I mean, you're not bestowed upon you anything and you're not some great person, and neither was any of those entrepreneurs, right? It takes a lot a lot of people and you have to leverage talents. You have to leverage knowledge. You have to leverage time you have to leverage structure infrastructure, you have to leverage technology and then yeah, there's capital to you need to leverage capital, but it's all about identifying needs, and then figuring out solutions around those needs that isn't strictly designed around you. If I couldn't leverage other resources like I am, no one else could ever accomplish anything in life. So get rid of that kind of that fluffy stuff, right? That's supposed to be feel good and you read the story about some amazing person, like you're just not getting the whole thing and that's not reality and that's okay. It shouldn't be it doesn't need to be you don't need to be successful. It's not about you being more, right. It's about you having access to more and that is the key differentiator. You need to put yourself in circles with other people. You need to change your circle stances because you're leveraging your circumstances, whether you want to or not, you're hanging around a lot of deadbeats, you're leveraging deadbeats, and you're going to become what I like, call me curl, but it's true and if you're, that's fine.   But if you're not, okay, if you don't want that to be your outcome, why are you leveraging that the moment you spend time around it, the moment you're around it, that's the outcome. So like, you need to really take seriously who you're surrounding yourself with what you're doing, right, where you spend your time, and what you spend your time doing because little things are leveraged in time, meaning the things you do today, the impact is not direct, it's in 10 years, it's 100 times whatever impact that is one piece of knowledge that you can obtain today, you can leverage that through 10 years and so the outcome is 100 times what it was. But that's the same thing, if you just sit around and watch Netflix, or if you just, you know, hang out with deadbeats or people that complain. That effect is also 10 times in the future and you really got to look at that leverage, because you use it no matter what. It's just how you're using it.   Michael: Yeah, I love that and I think something we talk a lot about in the Academy is just being having the ability to get out of your own way. Which it sounds like you know, you're definitely touching on and so for people I think a lot of our listeners, something I hear regularly is I don't know anyone that does real estate, I don't know how to get started, how can people change their circumstances, like you were saying, how can they start to get around other people that they can then look to leverage for their own growth?   AJ: The circumstances are versatile, interesting enough, people feel like they don't have control over their circumstances, which is the greatest lie ever told. I mean, that is so stupid to even think about considering that, first of all circumstances are very much dictated right now by online, literally, just go unfollow everybody that you don't want to be like, follow everybody you do and you're immediately just now you just changed your circumstances, because I don't know what the average person spends on their phone, but it's probably eight hours a day at this point. So think about the impact of that and then on and then from there. Your friend group, like, just because they're your friends doesn't mean you're obligated to be around them and just because you don't want to spend time and take on their problems that are mostly self-caused, doesn't mean that you're mean, right? Like, you're not mean because you don't serve an alcoholic alcohol. No, you're a good friend. So stop, stop serving them social alcohol, like, right, they're alcoholics and get away from it. If you're an alcohol, don't go to the fricking bar, right? Just change your circumstances and when I say I'm obviously not alcohol, I mean, everything in life that you want to become or don't want to be moved. You live in a bad area move. Like, it's shocking to me that people are like, I have no opportunity where I'm where I live and I'm like, leave. All my friends are here, like, okay, then you don't care. Like, it's not that you like opportunity, because you want opportunity to come in the way that you want it and this is that pride thing again, why do you think anybody cares about you? Like, why do you think that they should deliver you something, right? We're not entitled to that we're entitled a slap on the butt when we come into the world and then maybe you gravestone I don't know, you know, and then a quick death.   Hopefully, you're not entitled to anything. So if you don't like your circumstances, but don't want to change them, and then complain about not having opportunity that's on you. Nobody else, stop complaining and you've got to move you got to get out of them. I'm shocked at how many people that you know, live in places where they're drowning in debt, they can't get ahead or, and they don't and then you ask them, why don't you? Oh, yeah, but I just love this area. It's so beautiful. It's like, so you're making a choice there, right? So first of all online, you can do that immediately. That's very simple. Stop spending time with friends that are deadbeat. That doesn't mean you're not their friend. You can still love that person. But you don't have to give that person your future. If they require you to give your future to them. They're not your friend and so stop it and then you know, family members the same. I have family members that I love dearly, and I'll always be there for them. But I don't want to be like them. Yeah and I'm not going to spend my life. Those are two totally different things. So you have so much control over your circumstances. It's the easiest thing to do. Go online, go to in real estate meetups, start going to events I went to I didn't know anything about storage. We started we want to get into storage. I started going to all the associations and all the event meetups right. We started to get into contact and I call people that had been in the business, but it's all about your actions and if you don't create the circumstances, no one's going to do it for you…   Michael: I dig it, this is there's so much good stuff in here. I want to transition a little bit to self-storage, because I think it's a super interesting asset class, it's being talked about and spoken about all over the place, yet why self-storage?   AJ: Yeah, so self-storage, I think offers the number one opportunity for anybody wanting to get into commercial real estate and here's why. First, the first reason is just structural. So prior to when we got into the business, 91% of everyone in the business was Mom and Pop operators, because this asset class had not been institutionalized. It was the newest asset class, as far as commercial real estate goes in the United States, institutional money couldn't operate it and they also had no way to model out what would happen in a credit crisis or anything else. So they couldn't invest in it. So institutional money didn't come into 2008, that all changed. With that said, a huge portion of the industry is still majorly mom and pops and that allows you to buy assets, that's value is crazy low, and they're not being operated well, and to very simply change that value around but so the two opportunities is firstly opportunity to actually change the asset but the second, the first one is just access. So if I, you know, when I was looking at trying to go into multifamily, well, multifamily over 80% is all owned by institutional, that means I have to compete to try to get limited supply of assets, I was at a disadvantage, right and there wasn't a lot of them. There's so many storage facilities, they're just everywhere and they're in every small town there. So your access to the industry, and your access to assets that can be improved, are just so plentiful in self-storage but the opportunity is that it's been institutionalized now, and it is a consolidating industry, meaning that's changing fast and because it's institutionalized, the value spread is crazy in them. That means there's institutional demand, right? Yeah, underperforming Mom and Pop properties that you can buy, and set them up to be institutional quality and that value offering is enormous.   Michael: Interesting and so if someone wanted to get someone's interested in, in self-storage, and they want to look to go get involved, I mean, it sounds very expensive as an individual to go buy a self-storage facility, do the value add play, as opposed to single family rental, people understand that usually have lived in them at some point in their life, or at least in apartments that understand kind of the guts and inner workings of it? How should people start to get educated about self-storage if they're interested in operating and owning one for themselves?   AJ: So firstly, you're in Northern California, right? Bay Area?   Michael: Yep.   AJ: So in the Bay Area? Well, I can guarantee you that most third tier market storage facilities are cheaper than any single family home, anywhere near you. So our perspective of cost with these and I think people have a very wrong way you can go buy a small storage facility that has 60 doors for under a million dollars, Miley, in most places in the United States, that is substantially lower than upper middle house, housing, right in today's world, right? So all of a sudden, you go, oh, well, that's not costly and I'm getting all these doors. It's a cash producing business. We don't value self-storage because somebody wants to own it. No, it's valued on our return. So when you buy it, it has its cashflow positive, right, or you wouldn't buy it, as opposed to like single family homes. Nobody cares if the cash flows, the demand functionality of it is due to wants and desires and needs that have nothing to do with revenue. That's not how storage works. So for the most part, I can find storage facilities all over the place that are cheaper than lots and lots of homes across the United States.   Second of all, you can raise capital, nobody wants to give you money, not in a big way to buy homes, right? Well, commercial real estate's different, because here, here's the investment and here's how it produces. Investors want to get money to buy a business, and a cash flowing investment. So the demand for other people to give you money to go into an asset that is cash flowing, and as upside potential is a lot higher. So I actually think it's much easier to get into commercial real estate than it is to get into single family homes. Now, the only reason why people think otherwise isn't there. They know single family homes, and they're everywhere, right? So it's an inventory thing. Oh, I can see lots of them, right but when you look at actually trying to scale or build a bit businesses needing to get capital, that's gonna be really hard to get people to give you money to go into a business, that for the most part, cash flows very, very little, if at all in most areas, whereas you're buying a diversified portfolio of tenants 60 doors as compared to two or four or 10, right, that have low capital expenditures, and as a way that you can improve the revenue. As investors, that's a great idea. So, you know, when you look at it from one side, meaning well, either they're expensive, or, you know, it's easier, multifarious single family, you're, you're only seeing what you understand and no, but when you look from a business or an investment standpoint, it's much easier to grow, build a business, or invest in a real estate asset like that, than it is the other one.   Michael: Got it, got it and then what about the operational side of things? I know that you said, when you first got started, you were doing it hands on, are there management companies like you have in the residential space that you can just plug and play into your existing asset?   AJ: Yeah, there are. So we, you know, after 2,008 third party management became institutionalized, meaning big companies got into it. There's also regional players, right, things like that to do third party management. I'm a fully vertically integrated private equity company, meaning we do everything from asset management to funding to all of it right, you don't need to do that anymore though, you can get a third party manager to come in and operate it, you need to make sure that they're on the same page as you and understanding the value proposition but management is the hard part, right? But it's so managing a single family home, obviously, much easier. Managing a self-storage facility is much harder, I view it more like retail than anything. These are short term leases, right and we have turnover all the time. So that I can see as being scary, or people not understanding but to have a third party manager that is great at what they do. Now, it's even easier. You don't even have to worry about it. You can hire somebody else to take care of it all.   Michael: Awesome, awesome. AJ, this has been super fun man, where if people want to learn more about you your story, self-storage, what it is you're doing, what's the best way for them to get a hold of you?   AJ: Yeah, so you know, I have self-storage income, which is the largest self-storage podcast in the world. I also wrote the number one best-selling book in our space, growing wealth in self-storage, and YouTube. If you want to learn about self-storage, all our contents free go out there and we have endless amounts of it and then Instagram is showing you everything we're doing. That's probably the easiest way it's AJ Osborne and you can go to any of my company self-storage, income cedar creek wealth, that's my private equity company but yeah, we're all over the internet. So AJ Osborne self-storage and there's no way you're not going to find me. But any of those resources, podcasts, YouTube, the book, or once again, my Instagram, which I'm always populating and uploading to learn more.   Michael: Love it at. Well, thanks again for hanging out with me. I really appreciate you taking the time.   AJ: Hey, thanks for having me on, I appreciate it.   Michael: Hey take care, we will talk soon!   Alright, everyone, that was our episode for today, a big thank you to AJ for sharing all those nuggets of wisdom, his background, where he come from, where he's been and where he's going. As always, if you'd liked the episode, feel free to leave us a rating or review wherever you get your podcast anything focusing on the next one. Happy investing…

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne!    There's no two ways about it - a lot of investors the past several years have made A LOT of money. When you have record cap rate compression, inflation, and increased demand, the self storage asset boomed in value. This has been the case even if you bought and did absolutely nothing. But things are about change.    Markets are already changing. Interest rates continue to rise, inflation is still rising and has yet to slow, we have more self storage inventory with much more debt being held on these assets than ever before, the list goes on. Unfortunately for some, they banked on the market continuing to perform as it has the past 10 years running. But therein lies the fallacy - they were expecting THE MARKET to perform, not their business model or ability to execute good deals.    We're going to talk a bit today about the major threat of relying on markets to generate good deals. We're also going to dive into all these changes we're seeing, what we expect to see in the not so distant future, and the data we're looking at currently to help us continue to invest in only the best and highest performing self storage assets possible.    Take note and help ensure that you don't end up getting caught swimming naked when the tide goes out, as Warren Buffett would say.    Thanks everybody!  AJ    Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/   Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/   Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/   Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.     You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher   The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/  

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! There's no two ways about it - a lot of investors the past several years have made A LOT of money. When you have record cap rate compression, inflation, and increased demand, the self storage asset boomed in value. This has been the case even if you bought and did absolutely nothing. But things are about change. Markets are already changing. Interest rates continue to rise, inflation is still rising and has yet to slow, we have more self storage inventory with much more debt being held on these assets than ever before, the list goes on. Unfortunately for some, they banked on the market continuing to perform as it has the past 10 years running. But therein lies the fallacy - they were expecting THE MARKET to perform, not their business model or ability to execute good deals. We're going to talk a bit today about the major threat of relying on markets to generate good deals. We're also going to dive into all these changes we're seeing, what we expect to see in the not so distant future, and the data we're looking at currently to help us continue to invest in only the best and highest performing self storage assets possible. Take note and help ensure that you don't end up getting caught swimming naked when the tide goes out, as Warren Buffett would say. Thanks everybody! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income Podcast!   I'm so excited to share this episode with you all because we have my great friend Lance Watkins on the podcast today. This isn't his first appearance here on Self Storage Income Podcast and for good reason. Lance is one of the most influential people in the growth and development of the self storage industry.    To start - it's no secret that technology has impacted and disrupted industries in a huge way. This hasn't only changed those industries forever, it has changed consumer expectations and experience in an equally huge way. So what does this mean for the self storage industry who's operators are generally speaking, vastly stuck in the 1980's?    This means that there is massive opportunity to use existing technology to gain a massive competitive advantage over other self storage owners and operators.    In this episode, Lance is going to share what that opportunity looks like and how you can capitalize on it.    You can start here at Tenant Inc - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Thanks everybody,  AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I'm so excited to share this episode with you all because we have my great friend Lance Watkins on the podcast today. This isn't his first appearance here on Self Storage Income Podcast and for good reason. Lance is one of the most influential people in the growth and development of the self storage industry. To start - it's no secret that technology has impacted and disrupted industries in a huge way. This hasn't only changed those industries forever, it has changed consumer expectations and experience in an equally huge way. So what does this mean for the self storage industry who's operators are generally speaking, vastly stuck in the 1980's? This means that there is massive opportunity to use existing technology to gain a massive competitive advantage over other self storage owners and operators. In this episode, Lance is going to share what that opportunity looks like and how you can capitalize on it. You can start here at Tenant Inc - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! I've said it before and I'll say it again - I believe self storage can be one of the best investments out there. Whether you're looking to be a passive investor, or an active, hands on investor, self storage can provide some incredible returns. Today, I wanted to share with you just how great self storage investing can be. And to accomplish this, I wanted to share some numbers with you from a real and recent deal I did. I'm going to walk you through this deal, where the value add opportunity was, and how I was able to execute on it - creating $3.2 Million in value in just 4 months. And this is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the added value at this facility. This is just bare bones, up and to this point, not even fully stabilized. All in all, I wanted to share a real deal with you guys. I wanted to give you a peak at the deals that are still out there today and the kind of wealth generating potential that they can hold. All we have to do is take action and pull the right levers. Listen in, get excited about this deal, and get ready to go kick up your own great self storage investment. Thanks! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne!    I've said it before and I'll say it again - I believe self storage can be one of the best investments out there. Whether you're looking to be a passive investor, or an active, hands on investor, self storage can provide some incredible returns. Today, I wanted to share with you just how great self storage investing can be. And to accomplish this, I wanted to share some numbers with you from a real and recent deal I did.    I'm going to walk you through this deal, where the value add opportunity was, and how I was able to execute on it - creating $3.2 Million in value in just 4 months. And this is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the added value at this facility. This is just bare bones, up and to this point, not even fully stabilized.    All in all, I wanted to share a real deal with you guys. I wanted to give you a peak at the deals that are still out there today and the kind of wealth generating potential that they can hold. All we have to do is take action and pull the right levers.    Listen in, get excited about this deal, and get ready to go kick up your own great self storage investment.  Thanks! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! It's getting pretty wild out there in regards to finding great existing self storage deals that you can just simply acquire. But that doesn't mean there isn't still great opportunity elsewhere, especially when you consider developing a self storage facility instead. Make no mistake, when it comes to development there's little room for error. It's a lengthy and uncertain process that demands expertise and relentless execution. The potential risks may be great, but the rewards can be huge. So how do you successfully navigate the world of development? Welcome our guest and self storage development expert Joe Evangelisti. Joe gree up in the construction and development world, even serving in the United States Navy as a Seabee. After his service, he and his wife began house flipping and diving into real estate. Problem was, house flipping just wasn't scalable enough for the goals they'd set. Like so many of us, they wanted off the treadmill and wanted to begin building REAL wealth. This lead them to commercial real estate and self storage. Joe shares a wealth of development knowledge with us on todays podcast. Listen in, take note, and find out if development is the opportunity you've been looking for. Keep up with Joe on his website at: https://www.investwithlegacy.com/ Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast!    It's getting pretty wild out there in regards to finding great existing self storage deals that you can just simply acquire. But that doesn't mean there isn't still great opportunity elsewhere, especially when you consider developing a self storage facility instead.    Make no mistake, when it comes to development there's little room for error. It's a lengthy and uncertain process that demands expertise and relentless execution. The potential risks may be great, but the rewards can be huge.    So how do you successfully  navigate the world of development?    Welcome our guest and self storage development expert Joe Evangelisti.    Joe gree up in the construction and development world, even serving in the United States Navy as a Seabee. After his service, he and his wife began house flipping and diving into real estate. Problem was, house flipping just wasn't scalable enough for the goals they'd set. Like so many of us, they wanted off the treadmill and wanted to begin building REAL wealth. This lead them to commercial real estate and self storage.    Joe shares a wealth of development knowledge with us on todays podcast. Listen in, take note, and find out if development is the opportunity you've been looking for.   Keep up with Joe on his website at: https://www.investwithlegacy.com/ Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I'm your host, AJ Osborne! That's right… you have me, one of the biggest self storage investing cheerleaders talking about a self storage crash… Does this mean that I'm selling all my storage facilities? Ceasing operations? Shutting it all down? Not even close. In fact, my team and I are going harder than ever finding and making great deals. So why all this discussion and attention to a potential self storage crash? Because a crash is a very real potential currently, and the self storage industry is just not in the position it was before the Great Recession in 2008. All said and done, if you haven't been investing well, and you're banking on self storage to perform the same in the event of another recession, you're in for a huge and potentially painful surprise. Ok, but why? Why would self storage perform differently now than it has in the past during market corrections? Well, I shot out a series of posts on Twitter that outlines and explains this whole thing in extreme detail. Needless to say, it got a TON of views and got a lot of people talking. That said, I had to do a podcast to go even more in depth as to what I'm seeing and what we should absolutely be planning for as self storage investors. We will be going over a lot of data in this podcast, so we decided to make this one into a special video episode on our YouTube channel! You won't miss anything just tuning in as usual, but if you are a more visual person, you'll want to check it out! Video version: https://youtu.be/Sm0pZsLkxoo Enjoy, take note, and ensure you're investing in only the best self storage deals. Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I'm your host, AJ Osborne!    That's right… you have me, one of the biggest self storage investing cheerleaders talking about a self storage crash… Does this mean that I'm selling all my storage facilities? Ceasing operations? Shutting it all down?    Not even close.    In fact, my team and I are going harder than ever finding and making great deals. So why all this discussion and attention to a potential self storage crash? Because a crash is a very real potential currently, and the self storage industry is just not in the position it was before the Great Recession in 2008. All said and done, if you haven't been investing well, and you're banking on self storage to perform the same in the event of another recession, you're in for a huge and potentially painful surprise.    Ok, but why? Why would self storage perform differently now than it has in the past during market corrections?    Well, I shot out a series of posts on Twitter that outlines and explains this whole thing in extreme detail. Needless to say, it got a TON of views and got a lot of people talking.    That said, I had to do a podcast to go even more in depth as to what I'm seeing and what we should absolutely be planning for as self storage investors.   We will be going over a lot of data in this podcast, so we decided to make this one into a special video episode on our YouTube channel! You won't miss anything just tuning in as usual, but if you are a more visual person, you'll want to check it out! Video version: https://youtu.be/Sm0pZsLkxoo   Enjoy, take note, and ensure you're investing in only the best self storage deals.  Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the one and only Self Storage Income Podcast - this is your host, AJ Osborne! I have yet another incredible guest lined up for you on the podcast today - we have self storage investor and entrepreneur Chris Ramsey. Hailing from the moving business, Chris and his family weren't too far off the mark when it came to looking at self storage. Chris actually developed a software for moving companies that also helped gather data about those individuals moving and their needs throughout that process. As you might imagine, this gave great insight for Chris in identifying the majority of people's obvious need for self storage. We cover a variety of topics on today's podcast but to share a few - we discuss the importance of identifying product market fit and supplying a market with the self storage product that is actually in high demand. We also talk about the king of good self storage markets - DEMAND. Outside of this, we discuss some industry changes, what we're seeing and experiencing in self storage, and more. You can connect with Chris on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/ChrisRamsey60 Thanks everybody! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the one and only Self Storage Income Podcast - this is your host, AJ Osborne! I have yet another incredible guest lined up for you on the podcast today - we have self storage investor and entrepreneur Chris Ramsey. Hailing from the moving business, Chris and his family weren't too far off the mark when it came to looking at self storage. Chris actually developed a software for moving companies that also helped gather data about those individuals moving and their needs throughout that process. As you might imagine, this gave great insight for Chris in identifying the majority of people's obvious need for self storage. We cover a variety of topics on today's podcast but to share a few - we discuss the importance of identifying product market fit and supplying a market with the self storage product that is actually in high demand. We also talk about the king of good self storage markets - DEMAND. Outside of this, we discuss some industry changes, what we're seeing and experiencing in self storage, and more. You can connect with Chris on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/ChrisRamsey60 Thanks everybody! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast! As per usual - I'm one of the biggest cheerleaders that the self storage industry has ever seen. This doesn't mean though that self storage is without its thorns or pitfalls. Don't buy into the hype - there are very real risks of investing actively or passively in self storage. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there who have built businesses around this idea that self storage can't fail. Not only does this expose them and their business to massive amounts of unnecessary risk, it exposes their investors. So what gives? How can we tell the difference between a good self storage investment and a bad self storage investment? I can't answer this for you fully - but there are certainly some investing fundamentals that you should absolutely know and be considering. This is exactly what we're going to be talking about on today's podcast. So don't miss this one! Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast!   As per usual - I'm one of the biggest cheerleaders that the self storage industry has ever seen. This doesn't mean though that self storage is without its thorns or pitfalls. Don't buy into the hype - there are very real risks of investing actively or passively in self storage.    Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there who have built businesses around this idea that self storage can't fail. Not only does this expose them and their business to massive amounts of unnecessary risk, it exposes their investors.    So what gives? How can we tell the difference between a good self storage investment and a bad self storage investment?    I can't answer this for you fully - but there are certainly some investing fundamentals that you should absolutely know and be considering. This is exactly what we're going to be talking about on today's podcast. So don't miss this one!    Thanks everybody, AJ   Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/   Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/   Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/   Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.     You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher   The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/  

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! That's right! We have my great friend and the one and only Jeremiah Boucher on the podcast today for his second appearance here with us. If you haven't listened to Jeremiah's first episode, check out the link below and be sure to listen to that as well. Since his last appearance here on the podcast, Jeremiah has been doing what most great investors have… building a great team and a company that can execute on great deals. From manufactured housing and communities, to self storage, Jeremiah has experience across numerous commercial real estate asset classes - that said, he brings an absolute wealth of knowledge. Today we talk about opportunity and how to identify it, matching your skill set with those opportunities, investing versus actually building a real estate business, and of course, we talk about something new and exciting he has going on - the release of his new book ‘Finding Your Edge - How to Win at the Game of Commercial Real Estate Investing'. Listen in, take note, and get ready to learn! Check out Jeremiah's company Patriot Holdings here: https://www.patriotholdings.com/ Thanks everybody, AJ Jeremiah's First Self Storage Income Episode: Foreclosure to $150 Million with Jeremiah Boucher Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! That's right! We have my great friend and the one and only Jeremiah Boucher on the podcast today for his second appearance here with us. If you haven't listened to Jeremiah's first episode, check out the link below and be sure to listen to that as well. Since his last appearance here on the podcast, Jeremiah has been doing what most great investors have… building a great team and a company that can execute on great deals. From manufactured housing and communities, to self storage, Jeremiah has experience across numerous commercial real estate asset classes - that said, he brings an absolute wealth of knowledge. Today we talk about opportunity and how to identify it, matching your skill set with those opportunities, investing versus actually building a real estate business, and of course, we talk about something new and exciting he has going on - the release of his new book ‘Finding Your Edge - How to Win at the Game of Commercial Real Estate Investing'. Listen in, take note, and get ready to learn! Check out Jeremiah's company Patriot Holdings here: https://www.patriotholdings.com/ Thanks everybody, AJ Jeremiah's First Self Storage Income Episode: Foreclosure to $150 Million with Jeremiah Boucher Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I'm your host AJ Osborne!    Just a heads up - if you plan on raising capital to fund deals… you NEED to listen to this episode.    We hear it a lot in real estate investing - “you don't need your own money to get into real estate invest!”, or “get into real estate investing with low or no money!” So of course this means securing capital to do deals from another source - this means using other people's money, or OPM.    Seems pretty straight forward… you have a deal, know the numbers, and know how much capital you need to secure to execute, and now you just need to secure that capital from others. Now enter the U.S. Government and regulation… (that escalated quickly!).    This isn't some big scary warning meant to discourage you from using OPM or raising capital, but it is a statement - as with anything, you need to know what you're doing to ensure you do things right. Which is why we have an incredible guest on the podcast today my friend and attorney Bethany LaFlam.    Bethany brings with her today over 20 years of experience in law centered around real estate syndication and funds. If you plan on raising money to fund your deals this is the episode you won't want to miss. We talk everything from the various structures in which you can form a deal and raise money, to the importance between these structures, what you can and can't do within those structures, and more.     If you'd like to connect with Bethany and her team with Premier Law Group, you can do so here: https://www.premierlawgroup.net/   Thanks everybody!  AJ   Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/   Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/   Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/   Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.     You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher   The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/  

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I'm your host AJ Osborne! Just a heads up - if you plan on raising capital to fund deals… you NEED to listen to this episode. We hear it a lot in real estate investing - “you don't need your own money to get into real estate invest!”, or “get into real estate investing with low or no money!” So of course this means securing capital to do deals from another source - this means using other people's money, or OPM. Seems pretty straight forward… you have a deal, know the numbers, and know how much capital you need to secure to execute, and now you just need to secure that capital from others. Now enter the U.S. Government and regulation… (that escalated quickly!). This isn't some big scary warning meant to discourage you from using OPM or raising capital, but it is a statement - as with anything, you need to know what you're doing to ensure you do things right. Which is why we have an incredible guest on the podcast today my friend and attorney Bethany LaFlam. Bethany brings with her today over 20 years of experience in law centered around real estate syndication and funds. If you plan on raising money to fund your deals this is the episode you won't want to miss. We talk everything from the various structures in which you can form a deal and raise money, to the importance between these structures, what you can and can't do within those structures, and more. If you'd like to connect with Bethany and her team with Premier Law Group, you can do so here: https://www.premierlawgroup.net/ Thanks everybody! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! Check out the video version of this episode here! https://youtu.be/QbnlcqVaCo8 As you might already know, investing in self storage has gotten quite the reputation recently. We have large funds bringing billions of dollars into the industry. Not only is the money coming in billions, the market is consolidating at a much more rapid pace than we could have ever imagined. Yes, this rapid market consolidation is one huge reason you should get into self storage investing right now. Some other reasons? Well you don't have to look far to see that inflation is at an all time high and if you're not playing the game and investing in assets, you're sitting on the sidelines and paying big bucks to watch. Not only this, but self storage has actually had a 26 year long winning spree (more on this in the episode). All said and done, there are various factors that we're going to cover in today's podcast that only further solidify the fact that right now is absolutely one of the most critical and best times to get into self storage investing. Thanks for listening everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne!    Check out the video version of this episode here! https://youtu.be/QbnlcqVaCo8   As you might already know, investing in self storage has gotten quite the reputation recently. We have large funds bringing billions of dollars into the industry. Not only is the money coming in billions, the market is consolidating at a much more rapid pace than we could have ever imagined. Yes, this rapid market consolidation is one huge reason you should get into self storage investing right now.    Some other reasons?    Well you don't have to look far to see that inflation is at an all time high and if you're not playing the game and investing in assets, you're sitting on the sidelines and paying big bucks to watch. Not only this, but self storage has actually had a 26 year long winning spree (more on this in the episode).    All said and done, there are various factors that we're going to cover in today's podcast that only further solidify the fact that right now is absolutely one of the most critical and best times to get into self storage investing.  Thanks for listening everybody,  AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Show Notes: Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! That's right! We're talking about a super important part of a self storage investing deal… the financing. Luckily for us, there are currently a lot more financing tools and willing lenders nowadays than there used to be (man that makes me feel old… lol). Whether you're going the SBA route, hard money lending, using your own cash, etc. there are obviously certain fundamentals of self storage financing that we need to look at and fully understand. After all, we're only as good as the tools we have available, and actually KNOW how to use. Not only that, we need to have financing contingencies in place and more to cover all the bases and help ensure our deals actually get done. We're going to dive into all this today and help shed some much needed light on the funding and financing of self storage deals. As always, thank you all for your support! AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Show Notes:  Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast!    That's right! We're talking about a super important part of a self storage investing deal… the financing.    Luckily for us, there are currently a lot more financing tools and willing lenders nowadays than there used to be (man that makes me feel old… lol). Whether you're going the SBA route, hard money lending, using your own cash, etc. there are obviously certain fundamentals of self storage financing that we need to look at and fully understand. After all, we're only as good as the tools we have available, and actually KNOW how to use. Not only that, we need to have financing contingencies in place and more to cover all the bases and help ensure our deals actually get done.    We're going to dive into all this today and help shed some much needed light on the funding and financing of self storage deals.    As always, thank you all for your support!  AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/   Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/   Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/   Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.     You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher   The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! I have a good friend and fellow self storage investor Hayden Crabtree on the podcast today to talk all things getting started in self storage investing and a pretty incredible piece of technology that he's been working on and is bringing into the world of commercial real estate. After deciding the college route wasn't for him, he decided to get a mentor and started into real estate investing. And find a mentor he did - Hayden linked up with a successful investor and worked for them for free just for the opportunity to learn and surround himself with the right people. Soon after that, he started working for equity in the deals that they were making. Since then, Hayden has experienced numerous real estate investment successes (and some set-backs of course), and is now putting a huge emphasis on self storage investing. We're going to talk about how he found his first deal, the lessons he learned, the mistakes he made, and why he's decided that self storage is the place to be all in. We then of course jump into the awesome piece of tech that he's working on - My Property Stats. I'm not going to dive into it here, but My Property Stats is probably one of THE most needed tools in the real estate investment industry. Listen to learn more and be sure to check out the link below. Also be sure to pick up a copy of Hayden's best selling book 'Skip the Flip' that has a wealth of knowledge and insights for anyone wanting to immediately get into the commercial real estate investing game. Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne!    I have a good friend and fellow self storage investor Hayden Crabtree on the podcast today to talk all things getting started in self storage investing and a pretty incredible piece of technology that he's been working on and is bringing into the world of commercial real estate.    After deciding the college route wasn't for him, he decided to get a mentor and started into real estate investing. And find a mentor he did - Hayden linked up with a successful investor and worked for them for free just for the opportunity to learn and surround himself with the right people. Soon after that, he started working for equity in the deals that they were making.    Since then, Hayden has experienced numerous real estate investment successes (and some set-backs of course), and is now putting a huge emphasis on self storage investing.    We're going to talk about how he found his first deal, the lessons he learned, the mistakes he made, and why he's decided that self storage is the place to be all in. We then of course jump into the awesome piece of tech that he's working on - My Property Stats. I'm not going to dive into it here, but My Property Stats is probably one of THE most needed tools in the real estate investment industry. Listen to learn more and be sure to check out the link below.    Also be sure to pick up a copy of Hayden's best selling book 'Skip the Flip' that has a wealth of knowledge and insights for anyone wanting to immediately get into the commercial real estate investing game.    Thanks everybody, AJ     Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here:  https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility.   You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/      

Need help analyzing a self storage market? Check out our feasibility study services here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/feasibility Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! Well this is an important question isn't it? When you're looking at a self storage deal, how do you know whether or not it's a good deal or it's not even a “deal” at all? Obviously, this is an important question to have an answer to. The thing is though… answers may vary. But there's some good news at least. There are some fundamental drivers that can help you identify a great self storage investing opportunity, and also help with rooting out the bad. I'm going to share those fundamentals with you today to help you be able to quickly identify great self storage deals. Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Need help analyzing a self storage market? Check out our feasibility study services here: https://www.selfstorageincome.com/feasibility Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! Well this is an important question isn't it? When you're looking at a self storage deal, how do you know whether or not it's a good deal or it's not even a “deal” at all? Obviously, this is an important question to have an answer to. The thing is though… answers may vary. But there's some good news at least. There are some fundamental drivers that can help you identify a great self storage investing opportunity, and also help with rooting out the bad. I'm going to share those fundamentals with you today to help you be able to quickly identify great self storage deals. Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! As you probably know, the value add strategy is the cornerstone of most investment strategies. You invest in something that's undervalued, inject value, extract that value, and re-deploy that return into other investments. This is one key piece of my self storage investment strategy. But how do you actually accomplish this? What steps can you take to actually improve and maximize the value of a self storage investment? To help answer these questions, I'm bringing in a subject matter expert, my partner, and my father, Ron Osborne. We cover a number of strategies that we've used to control and drive the revenue of a storage facility to maximize our returns in the quickest and most effective ways possible. These are the same strategies that you too can use in your self storage investing strategy. Kick back, relax, and learn how you too can drastically increase the revenue from a storage facility. Thanks for listening everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Want to pick up my best selling book for free? You got it - just head over to the Self Storage Income website and download your free copy here: https://selfstorageincome.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your free copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! Alright, so if I were any kind of a good writer, then I'd probably put something here for you that would do today's episode some kind of justice in explaining how freakin' awesome it is… but that's all I got guys haha it's freakin' awesome. Why? Well we have my great friends Andrew Freeman and Jon Marshalla on the podcast today. Their names might sound familiar because this isn't their first appearance here on the podcast. They appeared on the podcast once before and they also attended our live Self Storage Income event in Coeur d'Alene Idaho this past year. And no, this certainly won't be the last time we have these investing juggernauts on. What these two guys and their immensely growing team have accomplished over the past several years is truly astonishing and incredibly notable. Not only in regard to the amazing self storage portfolio they've been able to acquire and build, but the team they've assembled to be able to execute on all these great opportunities. All said and done, these are guys you want and need to listen to if you have any interest at all in being a successful investor. Today's episode has some incredible amounts of value that you won't want to miss - we're talking self storage risks, what we're seeing in the market today, and what the future of self storage could hold, and also how we're planning for these inevitable changes that are coming. Listen in, take notes, and soak up everything you can from these guys. Thanks everybody, AJ Invest with Cedar Creek: https://cedarcreekwealth.investnext.com/portal/capital_raise/358/ Success doesn't happen on an island, which is why I've launched the CRE Circle. Build your community, your resources, and your commercial real estate investing opportunities. That first or even next deal could be right around the corner. You can learn more about the CRE Circle and sign up here: https://www.thecrecircle.com/ Be sure to go to Selfstorageincome.com to get your copy of my Self Storage Playbook. This step by step playbook walks you through from start to finish - how to identify a self storage market, how to perform due diligence, how to contact a current owner, and ultimately how to land a deal and purchase a storage facility. You can also find the Self Storage Income Podcast on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher The Self Storage Income Podcast is Sponsored by: Janus International - https://www.janusintl.com/ Live Oak Bank - liveoakbank.com/incomepodcast Tenant Inc. - https://www.tenantinc.com/ Cedar Creek Wealth: https://cedarcreekwealth.com/