Are there techniques for planing self storage that can then be easily changed as things around the area develop more?

Your formal education is irrelevant, your credit and income become irrelevant as you learn more technique. 

I will certainly be using this technique when the time comes in my rentals. 

They might also use a technique called "Band of Investment" which is similar to a direct capitalization approach but it considers the cost of mortgage debt and first-year return on equity.They'll also do an analysis of comparable sales and arrive at a value, and then they'll do a replacement cost analysis where they take the value of the land and the cost to construct the structures to arrive at a value. 

That's because, frankly, there are too many people who want to be real estate investors chasing too few real deals"this business is highly regionalized.. in some markets were there are plenty of distressed assets all of the marketing techniques work .. in other markets that have rebounded and are super strong none of them work well.. just not enough distressed assets to go around..

Also, if anyone has used this technique, how successful were you with this?   

Of course, the choice of ammo is also critical.As for the woman hitting herself in the head with the .45, that was just poor technique.

I am still working on finding a lender and feel I will just a matter of time.from what my banker told me its always the construction techniques and the sizes are out of the norm by a lot. 

Have you considered creative financing techniques especially "subject to" or "owner/seller financing"?

However, Dodd Frank has changed some of the techniques he describes.