The best route is low coverage industrial, industrial outdoor storage.

The wholesale thing isn't going to get you a long term MF or storage unit.

Easiest and least costly is to go there and spend a week or so to get everything in order.Another one is to hire someone trustworthy and pay them to put it in their garage or in a storage unit for a month

Any advice for getting into Self-Storage as a new to CRE investor?

You can get the cashier's check and do any other banking transactions from the convenience of your home office or mobile device without ever going to the branch with any of these banks. 

I have one fridge in storage as a tenant brought their own, so that is a mixed bag.Refrigerators and stoves are reasonably failure-proof appliances if you stay away from ice makers, water in door options, and other things that add complexity.

We pivoted to self-storage a few years ago.

We have done 8 self storage locations and 2 country subdivisions selling lots in the Omaha area and been very successful.  

Now the biggest impactor is often the least spoken on which is energy storage.

Self storage zoning.1.