Since you’re considering Midwest markets, I’d highly recommend adding Detroit to your list of cities to research.

We have well over 100 Five Star Google reviews.

For example Intel headquarters, Google, FB, Amazon, Nationwide, Honda, (recently Anduril announced another 4,000 jobs to Columbus).

I'm adding to my verbal repertoire if you don't mind 

Buying up expensive keywords on Google is PPC.

After talking to support (who were actually quite responsive and helpful), they told me I had to publish the ad with only one photo first and then re-post the ad with additional photos later to force the first photo to be first.

She did nothing more than just forward my e-mails with my questions and concerns and set up a few calls without adding any value to the communication chain.

Would this be something different from what you can Google and find other articles on? 

I would recommend taking a look into 26B Intel headquarter development, Amazon, FB, LG, Google, Anduril, Nationwide, Ohio State University, and many other companies here!

@Luke Spencer I am not on the management side but I can tell you it took 2+ years to fill 300 units at one of our facilities and the other just hit 300 units in 12/13 months so it really depends on the demographics, and local housing market trend, the more people moving in and out the higher the demand for storage.I think if you're looking at a saturated market then the upfront cash to turn the warehouse into self storage is not a good idea but then again, maybe those operators are on back roads ( low visibility ) and don't push google ads well.