No outstanding loans, spend on the CC and pay it off every month- I’m not averse to leverage, but I certainly don’t want to get so far over it becomes a house of cards ready to tumble down.I assume that I would end up with 2 different "groups" of investment - the one that eventually frees me from a job in favor of my own business that requires less of my time (I know it's not easy and effortless like the gurus say), and one that makes old-age retirement comfortable.I don’t think fix/flip or wholesaling in the near term would work for me.

All three spent between $10K and $50K in legal, startup, advertising, web design, SEO, etc; none were able to obtain any capital.Perhaps the market will change and the window of opportunity will once again open.

Tenant is on auto-pay, effortless.

Some thoughts on Storage as we own some and are putting some ground up 3 and 4 story infill deals together currently:There is consolidation going on with larger groups strategically buying off some of the "mom n pops" with that, these large owners have VERY professional management.Storage has become an Internet search and SEO game more and more, and the big REITs have armies of analysts that spend all their time managing the search marketing efforts.If you are going to invest in a deal, I strongly recommend you get a larger management company, large regional firm at minimum to manage the property and internet marketing efforts.Locations is very important, you should be very convenient near other retail uses, BUT you do NOT have to be MAIN and MAIN due to most customers initially finding their facility through mobile and internet searches.There are plenty of areas overbuilt, but also plenty of under supplied areas, the critical analysis is within that 3 mile radius.

But SEO is a topic for another day...Thanks for reading!

Everything involved with marketing through a website adds up quickly (PPC, SEO, Hosting, Domains, etc) so you may find you have a better bang for your buck utilizing other methods.

We have one website through Wix.com that we still point PPC to, as well as a wordpress site that we use SEO and PPC.

Did you implement any of SEO, Adwords, referrals, etc?  

Dar Walden keeps coming up in Google searches, but I'm hesitant to pick someone just because they may have hired a good SEO consultant. ;)

@Bobby Jones seo and payperclick, but those have not paid off yet.