This is no time to deal with financial insecurity. It’s hard to be happy when you’re life is filled with stress. Even if you have a successful career and money in the bank, all Americans are within financial harm’s way 24/7 due to an unstable world and financial markets that are at unsustainable all-time highs. So how can you improve your financial sanity with a self-storage facility?

American interest rates are in a state of flux, and this can present a challenge to conservative investors that like to avoid risk. In this Self-Storage University podcast we’re going to examine how to protect yourself from interest rates woes and simple steps to mitigate risk. With inflation rising and interest rates at near all-time lows, this is a recipe for disaster unless you manage this properly.

Have you ever talked to someone who is bragging about all the money they’ve made in self-storage investing, and then you come to find out that the story is from the 1980s? Indeed, it would seem that most of the self-storage success stories out there are from an era roughly 30 to 40 years ago. And that’s a problem if you are looking to these stories to help you make money in today’s world.

The self-storage industry is highly consolidated by large REITs such as Public Storage. As a result, these titans like to buy “research reports” to help explain the current industry statistics for investors (which, not remarkably, typically just happen to support their business strategy). But for smaller investors, these reports may be lacking some of the information that reflects your business model as opposed to a REIT.