We pay a shade over $5000 for a 2 ton

I am likely going to be paying approx 300K stupid tax on their account.

Focus on learning and building for the next couple of years. 

The seller will be responsible for paying the agent commission.

The nice thing for you with a 1031 from that STR to an area like this is that you'll lose a lot of monthly expenses that LTRs usually pay. 

Add cash flow and equity pay down for total return.  

They know we will have more business for them, and we always pay when the bill arrives by hand.Brochure process- you can google Self Storage and pull up a brochure for a location for sale. 

I do know that HUD posts rates and the local housing authority can pay between 90-110% of that payment standard for the particular zip code the property is in.

First off, I have some multiplexes I own in different areas of the city and none of them have been metered separately for water so I pay it and just charge a little more for rent.

The 600k is rolled into the Y2 build (same as above), this is repeated for 5 years at which point the Y1 build is refi (will have approx. 120k in equity build just from mortgage pay down, no apppreciation factored in.