Self Storage Income

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This your host, AJ Osborne.    I’m super excited about today’s episode because we have another incredible guest on the podcast today. That awesome guest is Rob Labonne.    Rob was the perfect guest to have on today because like a lot of us, he’s just getting started on his self storage investment journey. Just 10 months...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast! This your Co-host Conner Skeen.   Today we’re going to dive into AJ’s step by step guide on how to get started in self storage investing. That guide is actually AJ’s best selling book “The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage”.   We know that there are a lot of you out there who are just starting their self storage i...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast (or the AJ Osborne podcast – whichever one you’re listening to right now). I’m your host AJ Osborne and this episode was so great, we wanted to be sure to release it on BOTH of our podcasts – Self Storage Income and the AJ Osborne podcast (formerly Cashflow 2 Freedom). Are you a current real estate investor? Looking to become a real estate...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne. Today’s episode is going to be a slight change of pace. We go in depth on almost every single episode on tactical and strategic steps that will either get you started investing in self storage, or that will help you take your storage portfolio to the next level. This is all great and fantastic for you guys to see...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne. There’s a lot that goes into analyzing a storage facility and the market that that facility is located in. As you know from our other episodes, the due diligence process is lengthy, in depth, and is a complete undertaking. But that process is necessary to help you invest in only the best storage deals. Just one qu...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne. We have another incredible guest episode for you today and you just might recognize the name. Zach Quick was one of our first guests on Self Storage Income and his episode has been one of the most downloaded episodes of the podcast for quite some time. That said, we wanted to bring him back on for you all for...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this your host AJ Osborne! I’m especially excited for today’s episode and here’s why - we talk a lot about storage investing, storage deals, how to find them, how to analyze them, and so forth. Today we’re going to do something similar, but we’re going to walk through the step by step process of my very own deals when I first started inves...

What’s up everybody!? Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast. This is your host, AJ Osborne. We’re going to take a bit of a different direction today and we’re going to talk about goals. If you’re listening to this podcast, chances are, you’ve set huge goals for yourself which is awesome. But are the goals you’ve outlined for yourself truly the root of what you want to accomplish? So many...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne and I’m geared up and ready to dive into today’s topic with you all. As you all know, or as you might be learning, there are a lot of variables to consider when performing your due diligence on a potential storage facility whether that be an existing facility or a potential ground up build. Today though, we’re...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! As you’re all familiar, this is your host AJ Osborne. I’m really excited to talk about today’s subject because it’s actually something we’re working on in my company Cedar Creek Wealth. It’s a work in progress and we’re building it out, but I wanted to touch on this today and share this journey with you a bit as I know so many of you guys...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne. Today’s episode comes straight from one of you guys - our listeners and couldn’t more excited to jump in on this today. We have talked in length about how to find storage deals, how to turn storage facilities around, how to extract and increase value, how to finance a storage investment, and all kinds of great top...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast! I’m your host AJ Osborne. I don’t think anyone sets out in their self storage investing endeavor with the intent NOT to succeed. Unfortunately though, we can and people do fail. A huge reason why this is, is due to a lack of building our framework to succeed. But what do you need to include and take into account when developing your framew...

What’s going on everybody!? Welcome back to the Self Storage Income podcast! This is your host AJ Osborne and I hope you’re all doing well, finding deals, and making moves.   One of the most talked about topics I hear from you guys about is the world of lending. Obviously, when we want to purchase a storage facility, we need money! But how and where to get that money? Well today you’re in for...

Hey what’s going on everybody!? Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne. One of the things that’s often talked about throughout the world of real estate investing is the raising of capital for deals. Everybody talks about how to find investors, how to manage investors, how to raise money, and even a bit about how to allocate that money. One of the issues with...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne. Today we have an episode for you that outlines the exact process we’ve used to go from owning one storage facility, to now owning and operating storage facilities all across the U.S. with a portfolio worth over $100 Million. We just recently refinanced several of our facilities. What’s that mean for us? Well f...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne. If you’ve talk to others about investing in self storage, it’s likely you immediately received the “storage is a cash cow!”, or “storage is recession proof!” comments. While we’re just as about excitable as you can get about self storage and the massive opportunities there are in this industry, we’re not about to...

What’s going on everybody!? Welcome back to the Self Storage Income Podcast. This your host AJ Osborne. We have another incredible guest lined up for you today and if you follow or are a part of the extreme kayaking world, you’ll recognize his name. Our guest today is Rafa Ortiz. Being a professional kayaker sponsored by some of the biggest names in the extreme sports world such as Redbull and GoP...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income Podcast, I’m your host AJ Osborne. As you know, here at Self Storage Income, we’re all about scale and going big. After all, we get one shot at this and we want to make the most of it. That’s why today, we wanted to talk about our franchise system. In today’s episode we walk through and lay out the key aspects of our very own franchise system that...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast. This is your host AJ Osborne. If you’ve been in or researched the storage industry for long you may recognize our guest in today’s episode. We have my good friend, and the one and only Lance Watkins on the podcast today and I couldn’t be more excited to share this episode with you. Lance has been in the industry since the 1990’s and is at...

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income podcast. Through talking to, meeting, and interacting with you guys - one of the biggest and most frequent questions by far that I get from all of you is - “How do I find and close storage deals? And how do I do it consistently?” Obviously, this is a great question to be asking and I’m super excited to share my process with you that is going to help...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast, this is your host AJ Osborne. I just got back from a trip to Kansas City where we’re working on closing our latest acquisition and I have to tell you… I haven’t been this excited about a purchase in a long time and today I’m going to tell you exactly why. This facility is the exact type of facility that we look for and has every piece of c...

Welcome back everybody, this is your host AJ Osborne. So you might be aware… we receive a ton of questions from you guys about self storage and how to begin investing in self storage… and we absolutely love it. We love getting this feedback from you all and addressing any questions you might have about self storage, because like most times, if you have a question about something, a lot of other pe...

Welcome back everyone to the Self Storage Income podcast. This is AJ Osborne your host and fellow self storage addict. Today I wanted to share with you some of the current deals we’re looking at. Specifically, I wanted to talk about conversions. Conversions seem to be all the hype lately and for good reason. First off, when we say “conversions”, we mean taking what used to be a big box store (that...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast. This is your host AJ Osborne. I don’t know how many calls, messages, and emails I have received from you all and replied to that had to do with this very topic. This alone makes me proud, as this is obviously one of the biggest key factors to help ensure your storage investment success. First and foremost, there is no one size fits all gen...

Welcome back everybody to the Self Storage Income podcast! Thanks so much for tuning in and for all of your incredible support. The podcast is growing, our book is doing amazing, and all the feedback we continue to receive has been outstanding. That said - let’s get to it! Today I wanted to give you all an in depth introduction to the self storage industry. Whether we’re just starting out or we’re...