Decided to sell off-market to a local first-time home buyer and the sale proceeds will be rolled into a new self-storage development.

We've treated the entire building pretty thoroughly, minus the basement, because the basement just has too much of the tenants storage clutter down there. 

Should we go for some furnished short-term rental and keep our stuff in storage till then? 

I would declare it abandoned, pack his stuff up and place it in storage, and then use the deposit to pay as much as I could.

We are looking to purchase a self storage property in Mississippi.

Private investment capital will steer away from where it’s desperately needed: in affordable work force housing and instead flow to asset classes like self-storage, office, retail, luxury apartment housing or out of the state entirely.We’ve been talking about it a long time but it’s time for us to stop talking and to start walking; take action and assemble a Landlord Coalition to represent Western and Upstate NY.

Pay them to move, provide the moving storage container in driveway and only pay for 30 days.

This reflection I have from my own experiences is why I recommend you spend the time to figure out where you want to invest, and more importantly how (type of RE investing: commercial, self storage, multifamily (small, medium, large), Single family, STR, etc. 

In the 20's Spanish style, we converted that space along with the other lower level storage areas into a new family room, bedroom, full bathroom and laundry room adding about 700 sqft by connecting those renovated lower areas to the original floor plan with new interior stairs .

Is anyone using SBA loans to develop and hold assets like self-storage facilities?