Self Storage Income

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! Today you’re in for a special treat as we get to sit down with none other than my business partner, my father, Ron Osborne. He’s the man, the myth, and the legend that guided me to self storage initially, and that has helped build the incredible self storage portfolio we have today. We’re going to take a deep dive...

Hey everybody! Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! We have an awesome guest lined up for you on the podcast today who I know you’re really going to enjoy. Chris Lawrence is our guest today and just weeks ago, he closed on his very first storage facility. Which means, we get to hear all the details on how he found, funded, and ultimately acquired and is now ru...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! That’s right… today we’re talking about the end of self storage… or what could be the end. This all boils down to the very real threats that face the industry. What are those threats and how do we manage them to help ensure the health of great self storage markets for years to come? Because trust me, we can’t fall...

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! So if you’ve studied real estate investing for any amount of time or followed the Brandon Turner or Bigger Pockets, it’s likely you’ve heard of the BRRRR strategy. If you haven’t, it stands for Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat. This strategy has become widely known as the go-to investment strategy for many resid...

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! Like the title suggests, this is a totally exclusive release of my speech that I gave at our epic Self Storage Income live event in Coeur D’ Alene Idaho just a couple months ago. This is a long speech so bare with me… I love to talk and I love self storage… so sue me… totally kidding please don’t sue me. This speec...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! One of the most popular subjects I get asked about is this topic exactly - how to find investors, how to structure deals with investors, the entire world surrounding all things INVESTORS. And these are great questions to be asking. The truth is, no matter if you’re just getting started or you’re a seasoned investo...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! One of the most popular questions I get is - “How do I structure a self storage deal with partners?” Or - “What does a typical deal structure look like?” All in all, how do you take the deal, yourself, and your partners, and put it all together? Not only that, what actually IS typical? These are all great ques...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne! So chances are, if you’re listening to this podcast… you’re interested in investing in self storage. The chances are also that you want to SUCCEED in self storage investing. Well today we’re talking about possibly the most important aspect of helping to secure self storage investing success. We’re talking DEMA...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! There’s no two ways about it, our most popular podcast episodes all have to do with getting started in self storage investing. Which obviously makes a ton of sense. There are a lot of you out there who are just getting started on this awesome journey of self storage investing and you’re needing answers, resour...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! I know, I know, I used the “I” word… INFLATION. We’re all thinking about it, talking about it, seeing it on the news, and so forth. It’s real and it can have a dramatic impact on us as investors and obviously our day to day lives. But what are the effects of inflation on self storage? Since inflation is such...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! It’s my pleasure to introduce you to my great friend Frazier Robison. Frazier and just so happened to know one another years and years ago… and it just so turned out that we BOTH ended up in the self storage investing world, which is so wild! In this episode Frazier shares his journey about how he went from zero,...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! Today we’re going to take a deep dive into one of my most recent deals. I’m going to share with you all details on what exactly we looked at, how we underwrote the deal, and our expected returns on the deal. There are so many questions that me and my team get when it comes to underwriting and returns on self stora...

Welcome everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne! Man do we have an amazing guest episode lined up for you guys today… We have my great friend Jeremiah Boucher on to drop some massive value for you. Honestly, without a doubt, this is one of my all time favorite episodes because the value packed in here today is just unbelievable. Jeremiah shares a bit about his ba...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne and we have an outstanding episode lined up for you all today. It’s something we’ve never done before and I’m about as excited as a mosquito in a blood bank to share this with you all. This episode is a first time ever - it is a live podcast that took place at our Self Storage Income live event that we hosted in Co...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne! I can’t even tell you guys how excited I am to get this episode out to you, it’s one we’ve been wanting to get done for you for a while. We’re sitting down today with the one and only Joe Doherty - Self Storage Association’s Senior VP and Chief Legal and Legislative Officer. Joe has tackled (and is in the proc...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne! We have another incredible guest lined up for you all today - the man himself Tim Fadorsen. Tim started off in the development and construction world working as a general contractor for years. He ultimately ended up building a self storage facility for a client. Seeing the value of self storage and the great o...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne! Deals deals and more deals! They are the critical life blood of us as investors. We have to constantly be looking for, analyzing, and creating deals. The only question is how? How do we put deals together? What are the essential keys to creating great deals? We’re diving into this today and are going to pull the v...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne! There’s no two ways about it, you all are amazing. The community of great people we’ve been able to build here around self storage and commercial real estate investing is such a huge accomplishment. We couldn’t be here doing what we’re doing without you all. That said, we have an awesome episode lined up today tha...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! Today you have me, Conner Skeen as your host. We have an awesome guest lined up as usual that we’re excited to have on. But we’re even more excited than usual because this particular guest has made an appearance on the podcast before, and we’re happy to have them back on to join us all for round two. It’s my pleasure to introduce or re-int...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne!    Debt - there are very few subjects that have gotten as bad a wrap as debt has. Don’t get me wrong, debt when you don’t understand it… can be downright deadly. But debt used as a rocket fuel for generating wealth and income… that’s when debt becomes a massive force of leverage.    But how? Ho...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne!    Today we have an incredible individual on the podcast who I’m honored to call a great friend - the one and only John Lindsey from the Lindsey Self Storage Group.    John has a huge wealth of knowledge when it comes to self storage. He’s done and is still doing it all - he owns and operates h...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne!    This is a special edition episode of the podcast that I thought would be super fun and insightful for you guys to listen in on. This episode is of my team and I while we were on the ground in real time evaluating a number of potential self storage deals. Some of these we already have under contrac...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, I’m your host, AJ Osborne! Do you know those people who are out there just who just always seem to be crushing it? Well, our guest today is that person and I’m excited to have him on the podcast for you guys. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Jon Farling. Jon came from a family who had a bit of a real estate background. His parents owne...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host, AJ Osborne! There are so many incredible stories out there of people who are getting their self-storage investing journey underway, and today I have a phenomenal episode lined up for you with self-storage investor James Reid.  James has been in the game for about 4 years, has two storage facilities under his belt, and i...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host, AJ Osborne! You know those kinds of people you meet that you immediately know they’re just great and genuine people? Well, our guests today are just that. I’m excited to introduce you all to Brian and Kelly Saari. Through and through, this episode is packed with so much value, I can’t even tell you… How Brian and Kelly h...