If I can get the purchase price of a large self storage facility around 100x monthly revenue it’s worth looking at closely.

Under 75x monthly revenue is generally a very good deal with 25%+ CoC.

Small facilities, under 30,000 sf, that multiple drops slightly.
Value add deals, with low occupancy and higher risk, you want to be more like 40x monthly potential and 150x current revenue.

These are the figures on our Erie deal. It’ll be a situation where we can refi out 2x capital at 18-24 months.

Small facilities, under 12,000 sf require lower multiples to be profitable and worth it for me at this point. The cash on cash hits around 10% when you purchase at 80x cash on cash.

The margin on these smaller facilities is around 40%.

The margin on large facilities is 70%
The two most important factors are total potential revenue and achieved revenue.

These are the baseline metrics I use to underwrite every deal.

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14 Sep
So I got serious about Twitter on April 12th 2020. Since then:

I’ve raised over $1MM and met with over 100 future investors in my real estate deals.

Made over $20k consulting folks on self storage.

Met several folks int in buying my biz.

& so much more.

What worked for me..
First of all I tried the mainstream advice and built my own blog, podcast, email list, YouTube. Spent 2 years. 500k downloads. Some success.

Got more value out of Twitter in 30 days.

If raising money or in business THIS is the platform.

Okay let’s go:
1. Stay on topic.

The most valuable folks here are here to learn. They curate their feed. They want business and interesting discussions.

No fantasy football. No gifs. No pop culture. No one liner jokes.

Be an expert at what you do. Mix in family 1x a week or less.
Read 24 tweets
15 Aug
A thread on how real estate investors, developers and operators can make millions a year and pay almost nothing in TAXES by using depreciation, bonus depreciation, and 1031 exchanges.

How it works:
Depreciation is the act of slowly, over time, deducting the initial expense of an asset against your taxable income. Generally over a 27.5 (residential) or 39 (commercial) yr time frame. So each year you can write off 2-3.6% of the purchase price against your income.
Thats a big deal. We're buying a new property, a $3MM self storage facility. Thats a $60k a year write off against about $260k in NOI and 200k in cashflow on a $3MM deal.

It makes 30% of our cashflow tax free.

Very powerful but there is much more to it...
Read 24 tweets
13 Aug
The storage business isn’t always fun and definitely isn’t sexy.

We bought this 155 unit portfolio at public auction in October of 2019. 150 units were abandoned and not paying.

We were handed paper ledgers and leases (some 20 years old) at closing.
We spent a week preparing for and organizing a public auction of the units. We got all the units cleared, cleaned, and ready to rent.

Finally, 10 months later, were well into the green and the rest is icing on the cake.
187 units total and 110 abandoned**

Purchased at $26 a sf. A 10x10 rents for $85.

Rural market. Will be worth $60 a SF when we get it 80% leased.

We’ll refi, pull out all of our initial capital and more, and hold forever.
Read 11 tweets
2 Aug
1/x Unpopular opinion...

This thread went viral yesterday on REtwit.

Am I the only one who thinks the last thing the retail sector needs right now is gov backed loans?

We’re coming off a great economic run. Margins in these businesses are incredibly slim.
2/x How are companies like Jersey Mikes, Massage Envy, Moes Southwest going to take on a bunch of debt right now and possibly pull out of it?

The next 18 months will be brutal. 1/2 the volume as the previous 18 months of they’re lucky.
3/x This guy (whos had a doomsday attitude since March BTW) wants to open up the floodgates to get them capital?

Are things going to get better for retail? Not for a while...

They can’t get debt because they can’t afford debt. Period.
Read 7 tweets
12 Jun
A thread on my thought process while putting a self storage deal through underwriting. This is a 4 property mom-and-pop portfolio in a tertiary market.
The asking price is $3.9 but we're one of a handful of buyers in the market and we can operate it cheaper than anyone else. Broker said he thinks he could make a deal happen at $3.2. I'll offer $2.85 but running safe numbers here at $3.1.
The current owner is paying $58k a year for a full time and part time manager on-site. We'd get a kiosk and software for $110 per month that can do the job better and hire a cleaning company on contract to clean units.
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9 May
1/x I disagree with nearly every point on this list. Here we go:

1. Skills don't build wealth. The ability to lead and motivate other skilled people builds wealth. Entrepreneurs are jacks of all trades and masters of none. Communication and resourcefulness are keys.
2/x 2. This is what people don't get about entrepreneurship. Its not about taking massive risk. Its about little well-calculated wins one after another that get bigger and bigger. Its not the person who takes 1 in 1 million shots over and over.
3/x 3. You don't build a network, you earn a network by becoming good at something and helping people with resources solve problems. My network didn't grow at the networking events. It grew when I got really really good at one thing. Too many people put networking before doing.
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