October 2026 Self Storage Investing Newsletter

There’s an old expression that “it takes money to make money”. And the same is often true of self-storage properties as you need some capital for a down payment to put a deal in motion. For many operators, this means finding an investor to contribute money to the deal. In this Self-Storage University podcast we’re going to review the steps to attracting and signing up a capital partner.

Every self-storage deal you look at comes to a fork in the road. One path belongs to the deal killer. The other belongs to the deal maker. Anybody can kill a deal. You find one ugly number and walk. But some of the best facilities ever bought were passed over by a long line of buyers who took that easy out. Here’s how to see what they missed.

America is going through some significant changes at the moment, and some of these factors are so large they have become “megatrends” – the name coined by John Naisbitt to acknowledge forces so large you have to be aligned with them to succeed. In this Self-Storage University podcast we’re going to review these new shifts and how to maneuver around them.

A self-storage lock used to be a stand-alone piece of hardware. In 2026, it can still be that, but it can also be part of an integrated system that connects the unit door, gate, management software, and tenant’s phone. That makes choosing locks a bigger decision than it was a decade ago.