Storage Moguls
What does it take to go from knowing absolutely nothing about self-storage investing to owning your first storage facility?
Turns out, less than you think. And Storage Moguls is going to show you exactly how.
Storage Moguls is hosted by entrepreneur and storage investing expert Joe Downs. Each week, Joe sits down with seasoned storage operators, real estate investors, SBA lenders, acquisition specialists, and students who've already done the deals, breaking down every piece of the self-storage and Boat & RV storage investment process so that anyone can understand it, act on it, and succeed with it.
Whether you're a first-time real estate investor trying to understand cap rates, NOI, and due diligence, or an experienced entrepreneur ready to scale your commercial real estate portfolio through storage acquisitions, this show removes every barrier between where you are today and your first storage facility.
No fear. No gatekeeping. Just the real storage education, SBA financing strategies, underwriting breakdowns, and passive income playbooks that turn beginners into Storage Moguls.
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Episodes
18 episodes
Is Your Storage Facility Properly Insured? Probably Not.
Most self-storage investors have never actually verified they're properly insured... and the ones who find out they weren't usually discover it at the worst possible moment.Joe Downs sits down with Terry Campbell; commercial insur...
Catching Underwriting Mistakes Self-Storage Investors Miss
What if the biggest mistake in your first storage deal is believing the appraisal? Joe Downs and Jack Pezzino reveal how one student nearly overpaid millions for a self storage facility after relying on the wrong appraisal me...
No Experience? No Excuse. Self-Storage Beginner's Blueprint
What does it actually take to run a self-storage facility you've never set foot inside, from fifteen hundred miles away, without a single day of real estate experience between you? Joe Downs sits down with John Gaspar and Robert Fig...
A Self-Storage Broker's Warning to First-Time Buyers
Is the self-storage brokerage relationship the most misunderstood edge in storage investing? And are first-time buyers quietly destroying their own deal flow without knowing it? Joe Downs sits down with David Perlleshi, Managing Dir...
Build the Systems, Scale the Storage Business
What actually separates storage investors who scale from the ones who burn out? The deals, or the systems behind them? Joe Downs sits down with his own business partner, Tim Kane, co-founder of Belrose Storage Group and Storage Mogu...
Why Self-Storage Success Starts With Better Systems
What if the fastest way to grow your self-storage portfolio is to stop trying to do everything yourself? Joe Downs sits down with Magen Smith, CPA, CEO and co-founder of Atomic Storage Group, to unpack her remarkable journey ...
Why Storage Investing Deals Die During Due Diligence
What's the one clause in your storage deal that could cost you six figures…and would your attorney even catch it? Joe Downs pulls back the curtain on the legal side of storage investing with Jason Mandel, the commercial real estate ...
The 3 Fears Keeping You From Your First Storage Deal
What's really standing between a smart, employed, motivated person and their first storage facility… and why isn't it money? Joe Downs makes the listener the guest and pulls back the curtain on the three quiet fears that keep would-...
Too Young, Too Inexperienced? This Storage Deal Says Otherwise
Is self-storage investing quietly within reach for buyers everyone assumes are "too young" or "too inexperienced”?Joe Downs sits down with brothers Aidan and Liam Brennan, the youngest buyers he's ever mentored, who just closed on Highwa...
What Banks Really Want From First-Time Storage Investors
Is a first-time storage buyer actually in a stronger position with lenders than an investor who already owns fifty properties? Joe Downs sits down with David Merkin, senior managing director at Eastern Union Funding, one of the coun...
The Real Cost of Self-Storage Management
What's the one cost that quietly kills first-time self-storage deals... before the new owner ever collects a dollar? This episode pulls back the curtain on the management question that's holding too many qualified investors back fro...
Data Points That Actually Matter When Closing Storage Deals
Are you still piecing together self-storage market data from six browser tabs, census pages, Google Maps, and a legal pad full of math while a motivated seller waits? The institutional buyers cracked the code long ago, and in this e...
What Brokers Are Really Thinking When Your LOI Comes In
What does a self-storage broker actually think when your offer lands in his inbox and why does the broker's decision happen long before you ever submit an LOI? Joe Downs sits down with Matt Rosendale, a broker with the Lindsey Self-...
Are You the Right Person to Buy a Storage Facility?
What actually separates the investors who close their first self-storage deal from everyone else watching from the sidelines and why does it have almost nothing to do with money, intelligence, or market timing? Joe Downs sits down w...
The Storage Facility Nobody Wanted. The Deal Everybody Missed.
Is the gap between what your storage facility is and what it should be worth more than the facility itself? Joe Downs sits down with Sydnie Wilda, operations and property management expert at Anytime Storage, a hands-on operator who...
The Seller Stopped Operating. The Data Made Them Stay.
What do you do when the seller of your first self-storage facility simply stops showing up? Phones go dark, the website dies, and occupancy craters to 40%...while you're still under contract and $25,000 deep in non-recoverable costs? <...
Cancer Threatened Their Income. Storage Made It Bulletproof.
What would happen to your household income if you couldn't work tomorrow? That single question is at the heart of this episode and for guest Christin Blunk, it wasn't hypothetical. When her husband Rod was diagnosed with stage four ...