If you want to invest in real estate, you can work with an RIA who has access to real estate syndications or you can source syndication opportunities yourself (real estate/notes/ATM/self storage/MHP/cattle/agriculture). 

Hey everyone,I am looking at a 3 bed 1 bath house with 10 storage units on the property in a residential neighborhood.

Further, young entrants into the labor market these days are into hand-held devices with circuitry, not hammers.

Yep right , 203 k rehab loan is my only option here and yes its allowed , The reason I can only leverage this as my first purchase is to take advantage of the first look program by homepath where investors are not allowed to bid for the first 20 days - These REOs are very competitively priced so that's the rationale....posting the link for the program https://www.homepath.com/firstlook-program.htmlWaiting for fourplex is something I am considering , but we could understand easily why this is more competitive as its residential , so the only way to get a leg up is to pick something which is slightly complicated - I have heard of things like converting one of the unit as storage or something like that , but need to find right guidance as you know I am scared to death :-)

For $50/mo you could find offsite storage for that.

Consider renting the garage separately to a contractor or as a local alternative to self-storage if it won’t command incremental rent from a tenant.

I am developing larger storage units that small businesses (an average citizens) can store there stuff and call home once they've outgrown their garages. 

She said she'll mainly be using this place for storage, but will come by time to time to sand and stain some pieces.  

I'm in the stage of trying to gather as much info as possible, listen to podcasts, read free books on Kindle prime and possibly take baby steps to get a wallet, hard storage and invest a small amount.   

Storage shelves or closet to basement?