Where you’re based and where you invest (or plan to invest)- I'm based in Dallas, Tx where I was born an raised.

Done and done.If you realize that those above topics are pretty much everything about Self Storage AND you learn those three (precursory will work, in-depth is better), you've got all your bases covered.  

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If I'm in your shoes, I recommend chatting with some local investors (attend a few meetups) to get a good sense of whats possible and not based on others that have a similar W2 scenario as yours. 

We take this to mean (based on 100s of real tax court cases) any activities integral to the business of running a rental.

Ask for a comparison based on the current coverage and also any recommendations for better coverage. 

Without having MLS access it's more difficult, but can be done :) I would not go in with numbers based solely on hopeful STR analytics.

Then negotiate based on that.

RE markets are efficient and based on numerous criteria. 

Smaller industrial properties have maintainedimpressive occupancy rates and rising rents for several years, and in recentmonths they have increasingly stood out as one of the best-performingcategories of commercial real estate.To learn which U.S. markets have the most acuteshortages of smaller industrial space, CoStar ranked the 60 largest U.S.markets based on the composite scores of three criteria: current availabilityrates for industrial buildings smaller than 50,000 square feet; the mediannumber of months on the market of 10,000-25,000-square-foot industrial spacesleased in the past 12 months; and the median number of months on the market ofindustrial spaces smaller than 10,000 square feet leased in the past 12 months.