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Investment Info:
Other buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $750,000
Cash invested: $63,000
Purchased self storage facility #2. 50/50 ownership with a partner. This is down the street from our ...
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Has anyone rented out their basement for self-storage? What type of storage lockers are you using? Are you building rooms with drywall/doors or just wire mesh pre-built cages and what is the optimal size? Do you have ...
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This is a completely new category for us and not quite sure how to interpret... my brother/partner is a real estate broker in a small market where he can rarely find an open self-storage unit for customers that are m...
Hi Everyone!I am new to self storage investing and was wondering if there were any Acquisition Pro-forma Spreadsheets that you recommend? I have a potential deal that I wanted to see if the numbers work out. Any hel...
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Hi everyone. I was wondering if anybody could recommend places aside from Facebook marketplace to find furniture at a good deal. Thanks in advance
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I've been recently looking into some storage facilities and although I have a good idea of my area's cap rates, average facility NOI for particular size facilities, etc., I'm still unsure of the costs associated with ...
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For those of you that think we are back in a bubble: Have you sold any of your places into the 'increase'? If so, where did you 'park' your cash?My issue is that between my wife & I we have sold 3 houses this ye...
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Good evening, everyone. Last year, I purchased a house for myself with 3 additional rooms to rent. So far, this has been going very well. I have two vacancies coming up soon that have me a little worried, but thi...
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As someone who has never invested in real estate, self-storage seems like a great way to break into real estate investing. What are your thoughts on this? From sourcing/analyzing deals to financing to cash flow. Is se...
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Hey Everyone!
I thought it might be a great idea to start a story sharing post on how everyone first started their venture into commercial investing! What got you into it? How did you make your first move? What were ...