dont put all your eggs in one basket. jacksonville is a great place to invest right now.. there are lots more open but also san antonio is just as great if not more so. houton and fort worth to follow.. so what are you looking in jacksonville only for?

However, I noticed there was a cell labeled "depreciation" which always comes out as a loss.

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I know from experience management of the location gets more complicated when you put more eggs into one basket.

, cell phone expenses...Once you have a solid handle on the NOI, then worry about how to add value and lastly worry about the offer price, pro forma cap rate, and the like.

I’m not sure if the chicken or the egg is supposed to come first, if you will.

No one has bank accounts, no one has cell phones, no one has emails, etc...I do think these properties can be very, very profitable, but you have to balance the profitability against the amount of time you are spending on it.

I also recommend really looking for another way to add another income stream to the property (rent advertising sign space on the backs of the SS buildings, adding billboard signage facing toward the nearest highway, subleasing part of the storage unit rental office to another small business, adding a cell tower, adding metal railway containers as SS units, adding truck/trailier rentals, moving supplies retail, Amazon locker location). 

The thought is fresh eggs & fresh ingredients to be grown on the property.

I love the Berkshires, my wife and I met at UMass and got married at Berkshire East :)  It sounds like you're thinking about things the right way, you've minimized your cost of living and you've been able to consistently save a nice little nest egg for yourself.