We actually have the tenants sign a mold addendum that explains how they are responsible to keep mildew or mold at bay by running exhaust vents when showering, treating visable mildew in window sills and bathrooms with bleach, cleaning the AC drainline, running AC when humidity is high ect... 

Thank you both Steven Butala and Mark Nolan I will exhaust both resources!!

I would point to these individuals as a by no means an exhaustive list of self storage experts here on BP:@Scott Meyers (he'll be here in just a moment ;o) ), @Michael Wagner (Google "Storage Rebellion") , @Zach Quick, @AJ Osborne (Self Storage Income Podcast), @Fernando Angelucci.

People join BP every day and a large majority will never make a deal, investing in them would just be exhausting. 

I can cover about 200sf in 10-12 hours with the pad sander but it is exhausting riding that thing around all day.

We spend a ton of time finding the right contractors on jobs and its exhausting... 

A few weeks ago we actually closed one at very low LTV (like 50%) because it was a 1031 exchange where the borrower exhausted some of those funds for maximum rate buy down and ended up pushing it a hair below 7%.

Yes my reserves has been exhausted and I am now dipping into my own personal funds.

Yet another market distortionThe Kaiser Foundation did a pretty exhaustive study on cost shifting from the uninsured to the insured.

Additionally, a UP only kicks in after your underlying insurance policies have already been exhausted, and those underlying policies (e.g.