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Self Storage- Cargo Container Camping or Hostel

Thursday, September 03

Responding to a post, someone moving into a new area and gave them the following concept. Looks like a lot of National Forest out there. Check on going low tech with Cargo container rental units. No permanent water, electricity, sewer. Water- replaceable 5 gallon tanks as part of the rental. E...


Industrial Flex 1- day in the life building a location

Wednesday, September 02

Primarily do Self Storage. As I have looked around several cities, I have come across Industrial Flex, Contractor Garages and Contractor Incubator buildings. We have 4 acres set aside on a 4 lane road with 15,000 Vehicle Traffic Count per day. This is an 8 acre site. We built Phase 1 as self ...


Self Storage- Deal 5, Just Stir the Dirt

Tuesday, September 01

Start Small and make your big mistakes Early. Deal breakers- market, finance, zoning, footings, road type, water/sewer availability, Storm sewers, Storm retention ponds, over Analyzing, too Greedy. Everything else you can mess up and not get too hammered. Some of these stories will be ambiguous b...


Self Storage- What's the best Metric- COC, Cap Rate, Payback

Tuesday, September 01

Was on another post and the question was asked, "What is a good COC for B and C self storage." The following discussion relates just to drive up B/C self storage locations. More than 80% of these are owned by Mom/Pop. Realized, I didn't have a clue, since I don't use COC or cap rate to evaluate...


Self Storage- Deal 4, Don't get greedy or Always make an Offer

Monday, August 31

Deal 4 Clarkstoragellc-  Start Small and make your big mistakes Early.Deal breakers- market, finance, zoning, footings, road type, water/sewer availability, Storm sewers, Storm retention ponds. Everything else you can mess up and not get too hammered.Some of these stories will be ambiguous becaus...


Self Storage- Deal 3, Thought I saw you a year ago

Friday, August 28

Deal 3 Start Small and make your big mistakes Early. ClarkstorageLLCDeal breakers- market, finance, zoning, footings, road type, water/sewer availability, Storm sewers, Storm retention ponds. Everything else you can mess up and not get to hammered.Some of these stories will be ambiguous because t...