Purchase price: $516,000 Cash invested: $600,000 Converted mixed-use 3 residential and large commercial space into 5 residential units and one mixed-use Building.

In about one year, we intend to make our second real estate purchase, which will be a more permanent home for us.

Purchase price: $325,000 Cash invested: $2,485 Sale price: $335,000 Low upfront cost due to creative financing.

Purchase price: $137,500 ($44,000 in to the property... loan at $101,000)Appraisal: $180,000   ARV: $195,000Est rehab cost: $7,500Scenario #1: 75% LTV cash out refi at 4.25%...

YES, you can get the work done for less than this on occasion, in particular if you are doing some or all of the labor yourself, not pulling permits, or purchasing stolen materials as a starting point. 

Purchase price: $400,000 Cash invested: $20,000 Sale price: $620,000 Bought near a private university with the plan to live in it before renting it out.

So I'm interested in getting started in purchasing and running self storage facilities and want to learn more.  

Not sure about FL, but many places don't publicly list the purchase amounts, so tough to know what they sold for. 

I purchased the property before my wife an I were married and only created the trust after my daughter was born.

I purchased/still going through tutorials, entering data and trying to learn the program.