The Investors Guide to Growing Wealth in Self Storage

The Step-by-Step Playbook for Turning a Real Estate Asset into a Thriving Self Storage Business

By: AJ Osborne

Narrated by: James Morrison

Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

The essential playbook to earning a lifetime of income through self storage.

Over the past decade in AJ Osborne’s self storage investing career, he’s built a portfolio of over $100 million in self storage investments with no outside capital or management. In this step-by-step playbook, you will discover how to identify investment opportunities, allocate capital, and leverage management expertise to turn a mom and pop real estate asset into a thriving income-producing business. Master the principles of self storage investing by learning from someone who’s done it before.

The business of self storage has evolved over the years. What started as a mom and pop business in the '70s and '80s has become a truly institutional asset class with value-add and management opportunities not found in any other real estate investment.

By viewing self storage as not only a real estate asset but a consumer-oriented retail business, incredible opportunities are available to those who understand and implement the framework laid out in this audiobook.

AJ Osborne is an entrepreneur and investor. He owns and manages a self storage portfolio of over $100M in assets. AJ is a national speaker on investing in, buying, and managing self storage facilities, wealth, financial freedom, and he actively manages his facilities. In addition to buying and turning around many existing facilities, he has developed self storage from the ground up, expanded existing facilities, and converted a failed Super Kmart into a storage facility. He has additional development projects ongoing across the United States.

AJ specializes in buying and turning around underperforming facilities with a value-add strategy. He has created a management company to run his facilities and focuses on growing his portfolio. He is a leader in the industry with a focus on technology and self storage automation. He built one of his largest facilities with full automation technology. He is the owner and host of the self storage industry’s largest self storage podcast, Self Storage Income.

©2020 AJ Osborne (P)2020 AJ Osborne

Critic reviews

“AJ’s ability to dissect and break down complex business principles and overlay them into a remarkably powerful investing vehicle like self storage provides an entirely new perspective on an age-old industry, and lights the way for new investors interested in self storage.” (Roc Pilon, Founder/CEO, Gymreapers)

“AJ Osborne is one of the most legit, successful real estate investors I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing. He’s one of the people I trust more than anybody. AJ is the real deal.” (Brandon Turner, host of the BiggerPockets podcast)

A great introduction to the self storage business.

This was a great listen. Lots of good insights for folks wanting to get into the business.

Just Listen to it!

very informative and enjoyable. lots of golden nuggets. kinda glossy wish there was a bit more details.

Sure Fire Way To Succeed In Self Storage

This book is the pinnacle for information on growing wealth in self storage. Jam-packed with tactical advice and steps, real world experience, hard numbers and case studies - this is the ultimate guide for investing in self storage. Whether you’re new in the market or a current owner/operator this book is for you. The narration is excellent and easy to listen to. Use your credit on this one YESTERDAY !

All you need to know about investing in storage!

Only thing left is action! This book holds all the secrets you need to make a sound decision. Thanks for all you do AJ!!!

Great inside if you're thinking about getting into

Is great insight if you're thinking about getting into the business I bought it listened once and I'm looking forward to listening again

Best book on storage

The material is great, but I feel like the narrator isn't familiar enough with the material. Yes I know he is literally reading from a script, but, there's just something missing from the delivery.

Don't miss out

I was looking for a book to help me on my self storage facility ownership track and only saw a few options. They all had very minimal reviews and I passed them over in the beginning. After listening to AJ's Self Storage Income podcast I realized this book was incredibly new to the market. I took the few short hours to listen to the book and quickly saw the value in the market. Don't skip the opportunity to read this book because it doesn't have thousands of reviews or ratings. It is a great resource and you won't be disappointed!

A+ storage book!!

I 100% love the audio book and appreciate AJ for writing this! I want a 2nd part!

$imple, $traightforward, & $eriously Mind-blowing

This is a very simple and powerful playbook that anyone can use to build wealth.

Great overview for a newbie

I liked how AJ goes over his personal story of why he got into this space. I also liked the examples he provided from his own deals so the concepts he covered made sense. I highly recommend this book to a newbie like myself who has very little information on this asset class and wants to get into it.