Just like any new endeavor you're going to want to go into eyes wide open and learn as much as you can beforehand.Please look up investing in Self Storage on the internet - lots of articles, videos, etc. 

On internet forums you get a lot of negativity unfortunately.

I've been investing on some small businesses (3 of small internet cafe) that earns me some passive income but I want to take my investing lessons on a higher level. 

I began looking into real estate a few months ago though the internet.

There's info and Q/A's available on it through an internet search. 

Here's the situation:Perousing the internet and MLS I found a very distressed property that had only been online for about 6 hrs and I put in an offer; The issue is, I don't know what the heck I'm doing.

And the topic of master lease are all over the internet.

We had huge shifts in the economy from manufacturing to a post-internet economy.

A good realtor should be searching public records like I did and help you out but a lot of this you can do as well thanks to the internet.

One aspect of the note business that I relish is you can do it from anywhere in the world provided you have an internet access.