Posts Tagged ‘Brandon Karr’

Many times when I introduce myself to storage owners and I tell them that I’m a broker, they say something along the lines of, “Oh, so you want me to sell my property?” And the truth is that I have no idea if it’s even the right time for you to sell. Of course, as…

A client of ours called us the other day and we were looking at loans. She was thinking about buying one of the properties that we had listed and so I thought I would bring this topic here to discuss as well, that topic being cash on cash return. So what is cash on cash…

Introduction Today we are discussing the capital markets in broad strokes with some finer points relative to the self-storage asset class. Specifically, with COVID, where are we today? Is the market influenced exclusively by where treasuries are? Is it sponsor specific? Is it geographically based? What about rates? Broad Strokes With a broad stroke, rates…

Discussion about Capital Markets Introduction Karr Self Storage spends most of the time in the primary markets throughout Texas. But, one of the interesting things that were seen that is relative to the capital markets is an interest in secondary markets. A portfolio was recently closed out in The Permian in West Texas, not too…

If there’s a question right now that seems to be on everybody’s minds, it is how is all this new construction going to be impacting the self-storage industry? Well, admittedly, there are a number of new facilities being built and it is something that is important to understand. Well, as specialists in the market, we…

Clients engage us to take their property to market. What they expect is to have as many qualified buyers as possible look at the deal, look at the package, look at the video, and spend time on it and really try to understand it. And one of the benefits of engaging Karr self-storage is that…

I was talking to a new investor who had not yet entered the Texas self-storage investment space, and he was primarily interested in distressed opportunities. And when we talk about distressed opportunities, we talk about properties that have been mismanaged for one reason or another, maybe something has happened. Either way, they are not making…

At Marcus & Millichap, we have a lot of brokers who specialize in different product types, whether it be hotels, retail strip centers, or apartment complexes. And they’ll come to me and say, “Why is self-storage so popular? And the main reason is that self-storage does pretty well, even when we’re in economic downturns. And…

Let’s talk about due diligence. Let’s say someone’s found this piece of property and it’s a decent location and so forth. What would be the suggestion for someone who is looking for, and walk us through a process that you go through? Assuming that you’ve found a property that you think might be an attractive…