Most don't park their car, but rather use it as storage.

I bought a Fannie Mae property with a storage unit and an apartment. 

It would be great to see more commercial real estate content on topics besides just investing in apartment complexes, trailer parks and storage facilities. 

Anything from storage units, apartments, to full blown communities, would enjoy chatting if youre in the same space.

But if you have a storage system, and separate your purchases into piles by the month that you purchased it, and hold onto those products for at least one year before donating them, they become long term capital gains items and you can donate them for fair market value, which is the full $1000 plus one years worth of inflation. 

If I build it would be very small and I would need to treat down a big storage shed.

PICK UP LABOR$17,000.00$2,040.00$19,040.00JOB TOILET$1,200.00$144.00$1,344.00ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING$41,525.62$4,983.07$46,508.69RENTALS$10,000.00$1,200.00$11,200.00TRAILER/STORAGE/SECURITY $0.00$0.00TRASH ENCLOSURE $0.00$0.00SURVEYING$3,000.00$360.00$3,360.00SUPERVISION - 12 MTHS$56,000.00$6,720.00$62,720.00FIRE INSURANCE$1,500.00$180.00$1,680.00LIABILITY INSURANCE$15,000.00$1,800.00$16,800.00FIRE ALARM$5,000.00$600.00$5,600.00SUBDIVISION 10 lots$5,000.00$600.00$5,600.00CONTINGENCY 5% PROFIT AND OVERHEAD$146,572.13$17,588.66$164,160.79TOTAL$1,870,950.18$224,514.02$2,095,464.21$150.06 @Greg Dickersonundefined

I personally invest in self storage, rentals, and have a day job and with all of those sources of income I dollar cost average into ETF's and mutual funds (along with reinvesting into those businesses).

New landlord would not agree to STR.He now has 13 couches, 13 TVs, 13 of everything that he has to put into storage and pay a ridiculous amount to have it moved.It's not investing, this is no different than leasing a car and renting it on Turo.If you have a couple of grand saved for arbitrage, just save longer and get a multifamily property on FHA.

The property was going as a land sale when there was already a house built on it with a detached garage, huge storage shed, a small animal, pen, and a four horse barn.