People pretending to be super religious hoping to influence your decisions tend to be the biggest sleazebags I've come across as a landlord..

"As the mismatch between local and federal policies starts to look more like a collision, economists and housing leaders, including Mark Calabria, a top Trump administration official, and Shaun Donovan, Barack Obama’s HUD secretary, have sounded the alarm.

It will remain a challange for the city leaders and the comunity to work on this issue.

There was another guy at the meetup who said that he's doing a flip with the meeting leader in San Antonio, an hour or two away from where I am in Austin. 

I've been on bigger pockets and listening to their podcasts religiously.

I've been on bigger pockets and listening to their podcasts religiously.

A tad about myself and my real estate history: My parents refused to go into debt for a home because they followed the teachings of cult leader Bill Gothard.

Being a landlord takes a tough skin and a shot gun and you must be religious and pray a lot and be a thug.

I've been listening to the podcasts religiously, and I'm at the very beginning stages of trying to develop business plan, both for the immediate future while I'm in school and then for the longer term once I finish school.

Yes, as for pretty much EVERY asset class, there are areas overbuilt. overall self storage is more popular than ever, so you do need to dig deep into analyzing existing sqft within 1-2-3 miles of an asset you want to acquire or develop.I've driven around with City leaders that hate approving self storage and even went as far as to tell me how when they approved certain sites for it during leaner times, how they regretted it.. so SS has a stigma like MHP with municipalities, where they try to outlaw it.I'm amazed at some of the Urban areas with good density that have Zero or hardly any decent self storage facilities.