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3 contributions to Small Bay Industrial Basecamp
Looking for some input on a deal in Crete, IL (south suburbs of Chicago)
Evaluating a small bay flex property, NNN, 4 units. I come from self-storage so I want to hear from people who know this product type before I move. Here's the situation: - 4 tenants, 4 spaces - One tenant is month-to-month. I'm underwriting them as gone at takeover and pricing accordingly. The deal still breaks even at my offer price assuming they leave. - One lease expires 12/31/26, about 7 months out - The other two are solid with active leases The MTM tenant and the December lease are both paying well below market. I'm gauging market rate off the other two tenants. My main question is around demand. I want to gauge how quickly I could re-lease the MTM space before I have to sit down with the tenant whose lease expires in 7 months. If I can demonstrate demand and get that space re-leased at market, it strengthens my position going into that renewal conversation. What expense ratio do you typically underwrite for small bay flex NNN? Coming from self-storage I have a feel for that side but don't want to carry the wrong assumption here. I'm sure a lot of this is covered in the 6 modules, I just haven't gotten through them yet. Happy to be pointed there. Appreciate any input.
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@Cody Payne in the city
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@Shawn Cannon ok thank you.
Intro- Brandon
Hey everyone. I own and operate 4 self-storage facilities across the Midwest and Southeast. I've been in the storage space for a while and spend a lot of time building AI systems to run the business. Underwriting, market analysis and automated workflows for operations are my main focus. Flex space is new territory for me. I've been curious about the asset class for a while, but it recently moved from "interesting" to "worth paying attention to" when a wholesaler sent me a lead close to home that looks solid on paper. I'm here to learn. Specifically: - How to properly evaluate flex space market demand - Where the pitfalls are that don't show up in the numbers Looking forward to being in the room with people who know this asset class.
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AI Deal Analysis?
Is anyone utilizing AI to analyze deals? I built an acquisitions analyst in Claude to help screen and score deals. I find it extremely accurate and saves me a ton of time. He scores - Pass, Watch, or Go, with a detailed analysis. Love to hear about other's experience.
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Claude has been a core part of my underwriting and market analysis workflow. The thing that changed everything for me was adopting Karpathy's second brain model and siloing my vaults by use case. I keep a dedicated vault for storage deal work — underwriting, market analysis, all of it lives together — so Claude loads only the context relevant to that workflow. Deal history, comp assumptions, market thesis, all pre-loaded. No noise from unrelated work bleeding in. The result is that sessions feel like picking up with an analyst who remembers every deal you've looked at. Completely different experience than stuffing everything into one chat and fighting the context window.
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Brandon Klekamp
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@brandon-klekamp-6619
Self-storage operator. Building AI systems for underwriting, market analysis, and ops. Helping operators do the same.

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