I placed items in storage and held them until Tenant paid me everything they owed, including moving and storage costs.

We pivoted to self-storage a few years ago.

Cash flow acts as a Safty net, that’s why majority of investors focus on cash flowing assets, everyday experienced investors are looking for best cash flowing assets, self storage, mobile park, Tripple net leases to name a few. 

He noted the similarities of this business model to large self-storage complexes that have a part-time or full-time manager on-site.

You don't want to start a relationship to learn about storage units and then find out they only invest in single-family homes.3.

But we have trust both way, they put their expensive equipment in my storage all the time and they act as guardian to my home and my rental whenever I am not available, it's more like a close friend.

If that means you get to put your stuff in storage and live in your car till you can get right again so be it.

Can you buy land & put a mobile home on it or charge for storage or generate any income that will pay for the property taxes? 

It is a challenging time to find profitable deals on existing self-storage facilities.

Have any of you ever rented out basements of your property for storage purposes only?