I am in my 180-day period for a 1031 exchange with $2mm in escrow and two properties under contract: a stabilizing self storage deal in a small but growing market and a NNN deal with three QSR (two credit quality nati...

My wife and I are looking to do a 1031 exchange on a property we have in escrow. We stand to net approximately $1.5M in profit, and we are looking to roll it into a long term investment. Ideally, we would like to ...

My tenants moved out at the end of the month because I would not renew their lease. Problem is that they left lots of things that they say they want, but have not come back for. New tenants are asking what to do with ...

Hi,I dabbled in real estate years ago (2004ish) by buying a 4 plex, renting it for a couple of years, fixed it up and sold it for a really great profit of ~$100k.  From there I did a joint venture with and built a hou...

Hi, my name is Robert Hetsler and I have had a real passion for RealEstate both professionally and personally for about 15 years.  Personally, I started doing deals in the billboard industry and ended up with a specif...

I am looking at an empty big box store in a shopping center to put climate controlled self storage in. Zoning allows it. It has a large enough sf that it should pencil out (napkin math says its at least worth doing nu...

The following story may sound silly but I honestly don't know where I should ask for opinions.My family owns a 2.5-acre vacant lot in San Gabriel Valley in California. However, due to their negligence and language bar...

Just read several posts regarding the self storage finance,it seems SBA loan is the good way.But just talked with the bank who deal with SBA loan,it seems that you should be US citizen or Green card for finance.Any ot...

I'm looking for all types of answers from people here so let me know what you would do! If you were given a $25,000 check tomorrow and you had no debts or anything else looming that you needed to pay for, what would y...

I close on Friday on two buildings (30 storage units) and a small office space.  Currently ill-managed with 27% vacancy...while the area is about 98% occupancy on storage.Anyhow, have another buyer interested in picki...