I would try to recess it slightly into the wall so it rests flat on the floor and leaves no gap where it meets the wall.If that's not an option you may have to trim the bottom or side edges so they match whatever angle you actually have.

I understand your thought process of buying during a recession but people have speculated about a potential recession for years now and it hasn't happened. 

I'm sure after the 2008-2010 "recession that was more like a depression" there are many out there who got hit hard and are wondering how to pick up the pieces again.

Rents went up 30-35% during the recession. 

Provided you weren't trying to dump under performing properties at the time, you may have experienced some short term heightened turnover if tenants lost jobs in the recession, but I still would think that replacement tenants would have been easily found as it is not like all of sudden millions of people no longer needed housing to stay in, so everyone would eventually land somewhere, right, particularly if you are in an upper income area, where unemployment wasn't nearly as badly affected? 

Two years after the recession officially ended, companies are adding fewer workers despite record cash stockpiles and healthy profit margins.

To put that in perspective....the previous highs were around 20 weeks or so...so we are around twice as bad as the past recessions on record.

They are going through the worst recession in their history with property values down 50% in this last year.

In addition, the Self-Storage industry has not kept up with demand due to the lack of capital by the banking industry through the Recession - to the tune of approximately 25 Billion in development needed to make up for the shortfall....  

In most markets in major cities its a sellers market so if you are going to look for a MF or SFR you need to make sure to be very very selective and dont rush into a deal just to have money placed...if you rush to place the funds you might get lucky and get an ok deal but more times than not you will not...and it sounds like you have the luxury of time to be selective.With brexit and upcoming elections theres higher risks of recession in the USA, so why not take 25% of your money and put even amounts of money every 3 months across 2 years into an SP500 index fund some ETF etc and just slowly invest your money.