Self Storage Income

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host, AJ Osborne! For anyone just starting out - those that are looking for that first storage facility to close on… I have two amazing guests lined up for you today - Dan and Ben Schiermeyer. Dan and Ben are self-storage brothers from the same mother… (I know, my jokes are great lol), and they just closed on their first-ever stor...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host, AJ Osborne! Man do we have an incredible guest episode lined up for you guys today! It’s my pleasure to introduce Jon Marshalla and Andrew Freeman. These guys started in the self-storage world in 2016 after building a wildly successful e-commerce business. Fast forward to today and they have over 3 million square feet of sto...

Well everybody, welcome to the 100th episode of the Self Storage Income Podcast!! I’m your host, AJ Osborne. That’s right everybody, we’ve done 100 episodes here on Self Storage Income. We’ve covered a ton of self-storage ground (or square footage you might call it lol). We’ve talked about and shared numerous value add investment strategies, interviewed top leaders in the self-storage industry who...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host, AJ Osborne! I’m so excited today because we get to sit down with my great self-storage friend Pam Domingue. Pam owns and operates several self-storage facilities in California and even Hawaii! She has a ton of incredible experience, experiences that she’s sharing with us today. Pam shares how she got into the self-storag...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host, AJ Osborne! It’s an absolute pleasure to welcome my guest today Drew Dolan, Principal Fund Manager at DXD Capital. After earning his degree and starting a career in sales, Drew realized something…. All the guys he was working with who were in real estate had huge potential to earn a lot of money, and better yet, these sa...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne. As you all might imagine, we get A TON of questions about how to get started investing in self-storage. We get asked all time - how do I analyze a market for self-storage? How do you add value to a storage facility? How do you fund or finance a storage facility? How do you find good self-storage deals? Well, today...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne!    Today we have an awesome guest on the podcast who is back by popular demand… the one and only Lance Watkins. If you haven’t listened to our first podcast episode with Lance, you might go back and listen to that podcast first to give you a better idea of who Lance is, and all the amazing thing...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne! As you’re probably aware, there’s A LOT of wacky things going on out there currently with the US Dollar, stimulus packages, and interest rates (and a ton of other crap I’m not even going to get into). One huge aspect of today that we have to take into account is this - we’re in totally uncharted economic water...

What’s going on everybody!? Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast, I’m your host, AJ Osborne!   I have to say, I get asked a ton of questions about self storage and self storage investing as a whole. But one of the most popular questions I get, especially right now is, “do I buy a storage facility, or do I build a storage facility?”   The answer? YES! If your numbers work for y...

Welcome back everybody to the AJ Osborne podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne.   If you follow me on social media you may have noticed these past couple weeks, I’ve been posting quite a bit on the current economic events happening here in our country. What we’re seeing is honestly unprecedented and in our country’s history we haven’t seen or experienced quite what we are today. That said, I’ve b...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This your host AJ Osborne.   There are no two ways about it - industries are changing every single day, and they’re changing rapidly. Self Storage is no exception. Self Storage today is drastically different in a number of ways than it was even 10 years ago. But what have been some of the biggest and most influential changes that have...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne!   Some of us simply want to buy and run a few self storage facilities that will allow us more freedom over our finances and our lives, and that’s fantastic. Some of us however, want to build empires, and that’s exactly what we’re going to focus on in today’s podcast.   Whether we have a facility unde...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne! First off, I wanted to take a second to give a huge THANK YOU to all our listeners and supporters. You guys are what drives this podcast and everything we’re doing here at Self Storage Income. Today’s topic comes straight from you. We had a listener write in this question on the Self Storage Income website (li...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is NOT your host AJ Osborne! This is Conner and Caley doing a Self Storage Income takeover!   AJ just so happens to be in Florida at the moment enjoying some well deserved family time. That said, we have full reign over the podcast today and are going to dive into one of the most popular subjects of discussion regarding self stor...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage income podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne!   Why are you interested in self storage? What does success look like to you when you envision your future in self storage? How do you define success in self storage and how will you achieve that? Are your self storage investing goals truly defined?   These are all questions that you should have an answe...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne. That’s right, you read the title of this episode correctly. That “Risks to Self Storage” may have caught you off guard. If you’ve spent any time in the storage world or even looked at purchasing a facility, chances are, you’ve heard all the hype: “Self storage is recession proof.” “Self storage is a cash cow!”...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast!   Today we have an awesome episode lined up for you. We’re going to be talking about self storage conversions. We have an insane conversion project going on currently and we wanted to share some key insights into what you need to be looking for when you’re analyzing a potential self storage conversion project.   Whether it’s an o...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast!   I’m extra excited to get this episode out to you guys because in today’s episode, we’re doing something we’ve never done before.   As you probably know, we get a ton of awesome questions from you guys every day. We use a ton of the questions that you ask to create more videos, podcasts, social media posts, and content in genera...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host, AJ Osborne! So as you could imagine, I get a ton of questions about a lot of things self storage… but something I get asked about absolutely all the time is RV and Boat storage. Common themes I hear are, “Hey AJ, I have some land and want to put some open parking spots for RV and boat storage so I can make some money and get...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host, AJ Osborne. Today we’re talking about the nitty gritty… the unexpected crises and large expenses you absolutely need to be aware of. It’s tough sometimes to imagine the worst case scenario, whether because it makes you cringe or because you simply don’t know what you don’t know. Either case is no excuse to recognize the very...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne. Today we have the one and only Drew Pearson on the podcast today to share his self storage investing journey with you. Even though Drew just recently jumped into the amazing asset class of self storage, he has already closed on two facilities and has a third currently under contract. How is Drew finding, evaluatin...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this your host AJ Osborne! Special Note - This episode is for anyone thinking about BUILDING or DEVELOPING a storage facility. Alright, let’s get to it.... I’m always excited about the great guests that I’m able to bring you guys, but today, I’m extra excited. We have two amazing guests on the podcast today who have an incredible amount of...

What’s going on everybody, AJ Osborne here with another episode of the Self Storage Income podcast. When we set out to accomplish anything, we have to have the right mindset. The right mindset allows us to plan, execute, and survive. This is no different when it comes to self storage. We need to be able to plan, execute, and survive, and we need to be able to do it effectively and efficiently both...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne. Today we have the big daddy of them all… unit pricing. If you own, operate, or are looking at investing in storage, have you every asked yourself: What should you be charging for the units at your storage facility? How do you know what the storage market can handle in your area? How much can you increase the r...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne. As we all know, this past 2020 year was a little crazy to say the least. Socially, politically, economically… it was the perfect storm. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom and that certainly wasn’t the case for the storage industry. I’m super excited about today’s episode because we have the one and only John Lindsey...