Don't be held hostage by your tenants.

The rental property is held in a trust in California. 

I am hoping to get opinions on if the business has matured enough to warrant the desire from a private investor to make this type of investment without having to leverage my personally held assets or credit etc.

On a quality scale typically Dollar General first, then Dollar Tree, then Family Dollar.A lot of theses dollar stores like to go in sub par locations ( Weak suburban to rural) and construction for most of them is poor quality (sheet metal sides and back).

I held for 10 months increasing holding costs and decreasing profits.

The most important thing is your goals and vision align...if they don't this could lead to turbuleance down the road especially when your real estate investing starts taking off.No one wants to start over but is it worth staying +30 years unfulfilled and being held back, or finding someone that you can hit all cylinders 10 to 20 years +...

If wall is not well established, your personal assets could be held liable to liability from LLC

Be careful about spending and keep healthy reserves held back .despite what gurus teach ive found it’s possible to move too quickly

(Yes, I actually had a guest complain in a review about that....how can we be held responsible for the weather or conditions of the Gulf of Mexico??)

We need to get out of this thought that self-storage is just rows of metal boxes with doors on a asphalt parking lot.