We're about to buy a deal in a small tertiary market with 100k people.

The mom-and-pop self storage operations in town charge $60-70 for a 10x10 unit. All 98%+ occupied.

The only REIT in town, UHaul, charges $120.

We have 140k sf under contract and couldn't be more excited.
We're going to $90 on day one and projecting 10% of our customers will move out.

I think much more realistically many more stay and we bump 10% every six months for a few years.

Portfolio doing $930k in revenue right now.
Only 3.8 SF / capita of storage on the market here. Compared to 7+ nationwide.

Our proforma numbers show $1.5MM in revenue 5 years from now.

We'll see how it shakes out!
Another thing:

An all-in cost basis of $66 per square foot. For a stabilized portfolio.

To put it in perspective we spent $50 / sf to build a facility 45 miles away 3 years ago!

I'll never do ground-up again.
Not right now. The risk profile is great and so are the returns but why would I do that when I can buy stabilized assets at a great going-in cap rate?

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17 Dec
Easy to say, impossible to standardize.

There’s a reason it isn’t - there is no correct way to do anything. Conflicting information everywhere.

What do we teach? Frugality? Credit cards are the devil? Robinhood investing?
Should this be included in the "how to be a good parent" 101 course?

Same with moral values, not lying or stealing, how to be humble, etc.

As soon as we start standardizing this stuff we're getting a hell of a lot closer to communism!

Folks get to make their own choices.
I don't feel strongly either way here. I'm just thinking out loud and trying to learn.

But folks jump on this bandwagon because they don't understand how complex personal finance really is.

I don't know if I want the school system teaching my kids about money! Thats my job!
Read 7 tweets
16 Dec
In Nov 2019 we purchased a 24k sf portfolio for $632k at a public auction.

100 of the 183 units were abandoned. The 85 yr old owner lost track of customers over the course of 10+ years.

In December of 2019 we had a 100 unit public auction (online, of course). An update 👇👇👇
Pretty good shape on the outside. But the inside was a mess.
We cut locks and got ready for the massive self storage auction on the 19th of Dec by taking photos and then securing the units.

Then we did some PR and got on the front page of the Corry Journal.
Read 7 tweets
16 Dec
Update:

Facility was doing $24k a mo at closing.

We raised rents 25% on day one.

A few move outs. But the digital marketing did its work and we gained 11 customers in Oct..

Did $30k in revenue in Oct and $30k in Nov.

We were projecting $24k and $26k.

We’re PUMPED.
Our management reports so far.
And this is the almighty report - occupancy history.

You can see the expected revenue bounce along with the economic occupancy.

If you can do this to mom-and-pop storage facilities you can find amazing yield anywhere. We're on to something special.
Read 5 tweets
14 Dec
PSA:

The Cares Act, passed during COVID, included a token for real estate investors.

You can now catch-up passive losses from depreciation on any asset purchased in the last 3 years that you "forgot" or "missed out" on bonus depreciation with.

GET YOUR COST SEGS DONE
You can also carry losses from this year BACK 5 YEARS TO INCOME MADE BETWEEN 2015 and 2020.

Buy a few properties this year? Get cost segs done, bonus depreciate aggressively, amend returns, and get a check from Uncle Sam for taxes you paid a long time ago.
Here is a thread on how this works.

You can and you should cost segregate and bonus depreciate your small rental property or beach house you put on Airbnb when you aren't using it.

And obviously do it on ANY AND ALL commercial real estate.

Read 5 tweets
12 Dec
All this talk about Austin and Miami.

I bought a new build 4 bedroom 9 minutes from downtown Athens GA for $289k.

Play golf 3x a week in a t-shirt in Dec. Live bands at 4 venues 4x a week (pre covid). Largest airport in the world 1:15 away. 4 craft breweries.
ZERO traffic at 5:30pm any day of the week.

A football stadium that fits 90k people that I can hear the roar from my back deck.

Farmers market with fresh food of all types multiple days a week.

Phenomenal fine dining and cocktail bars.

Property taxes are $3000.
20+ epic events a year downtown including Twilight (best road cycling event in the country), Athfest (week long downtown music festival, St Paddies day festival, halloween parade folks travel from hours around, + home SEC football game weekends.
Read 4 tweets
10 Dec
One of the most productive 7 day stretches of my professional career.

Now for a date night with the wife! What are you drinking this evening ReTwit?
Smoked whiskey sour with Elijiah and double egg whites.
This week:

Soft commitments of over 1/2 the capital needed to fund the largest deal of our lives (by 3x).

Loan commitment letters on 3 deals.

15 of my 1 hour self storage consults.

75 pages of the crash course!
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