I’ve met thousands of successful entrepreneurs in my life. People flying around on private jets. People with vacation homes in the most expensive zip codes in America and overseas. People who play golf, spend time with friends and family, and generally do whatever they want whenever they want. These people are[...]

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The self storage acquisitions market is tough, but the properties we own are performing well. Last week we closed a refinance on one of our earliest (and toughest) deals - a 3 property portfolio in western Pennsylvania. We acquired the 25,090 square foot portfolio at public auction in October of 2019 for $635,000[...]

The way people treat their money is one of the most important traits in entrepreneurship. Frugality wins because every dollar you save personally and invest in the company the right way becomes three dollars a few years later. Having cash reserves because you live in a responsible way allows the company to[...]

Tax season (for me) is here and my final income tax bill will be $0 for one main reason - Cost Segregation Studies and bonus depreciation. DO NOT FORGET TO GET COST SEGREGATION STUDIES DONE ON YOUR REAL ESTATE. The folks at RE Cost Seg have already delivered my cost segs this year and the depreciation is mouth[...]

Is it time to sell your business? I launched a business brokerage . We now have 1,200+ buyers on our distribution list. When we get a listing we'll do a podcast episode with the owner, a breakdown of the business to my 170,000 newsletter subscribers, and several tweets promoting the listing (I get 50 million[...]

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Our self storage portfolio is growing fast. Stats on December 31st 2019 (2 years ago): 7 properties 97,049 square feet of storage $4,510,000 purchase price $4,732,000 all-in cost basis Annual NOI: $452,000 Employees: 1 (me) At that time we had 1 full time employee in the self storage business. Me. I was answering[...]