Hardness makes it more robust and "knife, pot, pan, and toddler-proof", busy makes it yet again pretty resilient and able to hide minor imperfections, and niceness subconsciously selects tenants with a more premium mindset ideally.

As for purchasing an existing national-credit Self Storage facility in today's market, returns are simply too skinny to make it worthwhile for the average investor, in my opinion.On the other hand, with detailed site analysis and selection, RV and boat storage can still provide an excellent return with very little Capital Expenditure to get started (aside from the land itself.)

there are quite a bit of cities not available to be selected.

I have to select a predetermined percentage.

Hi all-I'm a new investor and live in CA but am interested in selecting a couple of out-of-state markets to build portfolios in.

While they may not always select the highest offer, they will select the best: For example, a strong cash offer might beat out a higher financed offer. 

My mortgage broker tells me VA, FHA, USDA all are being selective right now because of Covid-19.

As always, do your due diligience when you are looking for a tenant and please make sure you select a tenant who has a chance to buy within the time frame you set.

I would recommend to read tons of books, BiggerPockets has a great selection of books that will give you a great foundation of knowledge.

We are considering cutting that out of the process and telling them we will select and approve moving forward to streamline things.