Hi all! We closed on a new property beginning of September and have a few units with "unknown tenants" - no name, no address, no phone number, nothing (yes, the old owners terribly mismanaged the place). How would you / have you gone about handling these units? Based on the old owner's records these unknown customers have not made payment in awhile. This facility is in NY by the way.

That's the single biggest lie keeping new investors on the sidelines. I hear it every week: "The market's picked over. Brokers only call their big buyers. There's nothing left for a first-time investor." It's just not true, and I can prove it to you. Here's the reality. The MLS and LoopNet listings you're scrolling through are the leftovers. The actual deals, the ones with motivated sellers who are tired, aging out, or ready to move on, never hit a public listing. I've bought several of my 8 facilities off-market by picking up the phone, mailing postcards, and driving routes with a notepad on my passenger seat. The owners weren't trying to sell until someone asked. That someone can be you. If you want to see exactly how I pull leads nobody else is touching, watch this one — I show you how to get thousands of storage owner leads for about $50 using Fiverr: https://youtu.be/5eiGM5u9YgM. Pair that with a simple cold call script and you've built more deal flow in a weekend than most investors have all year. The full step-by-step is in the Blueprint if you want the complete system: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wkUwltCW9wk7LbsoddYwTfTFn5UgMg2x/view?usp=sharing. What belief about finding deals has been holding you back the longest? Dave "Off-Market Is the Only Market" DeMink

Hello from the n00b! What have been YOUR successes this week? Inspire us, and help us learn from your adventures, will you? For us: Tuesday: Power Hour Wednesday: Clarity Call At the end of the Clarity Call, Dave challenged Tonya (my wife) and I to go research "5 to 10" facilities each week. Which led us to Thursday... Thursday: 11 facilities visited and evaluated (10+1 = giving 110%!) Friday: Reviewed findings of Thursday's evals, then emailed 3 well-established brokers in the area to create a connection. Also Friday: Introduced myself here in this forum as a way to begin building connections and momentum. Sooo... Hello from East Tennessee (Oak Ridge / Knoxville)! As Dave says... Let's GOOOO!

Hey everyone, After a lot of thought, I've decided to stop hosting the Tuesday Power Hour calls :( My FIRST FACILITY coaching program keeps growing, and we have new projects coming that will help our clients in deeper, more meaningful ways. I want to put my full energy into helping even more of them succeed. The good news is that this StorageAce community isn't going anywhere. I'll keep posting and supporting you on Skool. Only the live calls are ending. Thank you for the last 18 months and almost 100 Power Hours - that's a lot of Tuesdays. A lot of you got better, a lot of you learned, and it was a great way for us to connect. The ship may be docking, but I'm still easy to find: DM me here on Skool Message me on Facebook Message me on Instagram Learn on YouTube ...be sure to follow along on socials - I post high-value content 4–5 times a week. Hope to see you soon, Dave DeMink StorageAce | FIRST FACILITY

A lot of mom-and-pop facilities have never been modernized. That's where the opportunity is. 1. Tenant protection: required on every unit. It adds income with no extra labor and gives customers peace of mind. 2. Fees: admin, late, overlock, auction. A lot of mom-and-pops don't charge them. 3. Rate management (the big one): raising rents on existing tenants over time, not just the street rate for new renters. That's the difference between running a facility like a business and running it like a bank account. Video (2.5 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCnPMkPAwHA Which of these 3 surprised you the most?