If I could buy it at 99 cents a foot I'd buy a few pallets and put them in my storage. 

Recently acquired a small self storage building, your basic run of the mill self storage.

That doesn't seem too feasible in New York, where rents are very high overall. 

We use the garage for storage, and it adds probably 5k in value to the deed. 

I think once you've narrowed down what you want to build it's a good idea obtain a feasibility study.  

Either others are doing it (in which case, you have your feasibility data) or nobody else is doing it (in which case, it's not as foolproof as you might think). 

Performance ratios from finance and accounting don't show the same feasibility as they do with securities which are graded and can be viewed as "like investments" real estate is unique and no two properties are the same nor are they very often really that similar, unless they are very close together.

Hi,I've signed up to this site as part of my investigation into the feasibility of buying to let in the SF Bay Area.

Thought about doing storage units.

Also if they have elevated land you can set it up so that you've got a storage tank that supplies the house through the use of gravity (no worries about that power being out!