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People keep money in gold, silver, stocks, bonds, CDs and many other alternatives. But one that many people do not think about are self-storage facilities – and yet these may be an excellent way to store your wealth in an unstable America.

The self-storage industry is going through some seismic shifts due to the new America, and one of these is described in this recent article about Global Self-Storage (GSS) and interview with their ......

This is no time to deal with financial insecurity. It’s hard to be happy when you’re life is filled with stress. Even if you have a successful career and money in the bank, all Americans are within financial harm’s wa

Have you ever talked to someone who is bragging about all the money they’ve made in self-storage investing, and then you come to find out that the story is from the 1980s? Indeed, it would seem that most of the self-storage success......

One aspect of self-storage facilities that gets little attention is the fact that it’s made up of tens or hundreds of little customers. This is not a source of frustration but actually an asset for those who own them

Every self-storage facility purchase requires a title company to handle the transaction – but which one should it be? The answer is that you should always steer for the largest title company in the metro

One of the greatest tools in self-storage investing – the most powerful of them all – is leverage. The simple existence of sensible leverage on a storage property can spike the return up significantly as well as to allow the buyer

Not all self-storage facilities are created equally. Well, they may be built the same, but there’s a whole lot more to a storage property being “investment grade” than just metal walls and roll-up door.

To build a self-storage facility typically requires going before Planning and Zoning as well as the City Council. Sometimes it’s just to approve your plans, but in other cases it’s required to get the zoning necessary to have the right to build...........

Self-storage serves many roles for many customers. And, assuming that these customers all come from similar positions to need storage, it might be a good marketing plan to work backwards and match the key drivers...........