Flipping America

Fixing and flipping houses isn’t for everyone. Fortunately there are about a thousand other ways to become a real estate millionaire. Today we are going to hear about another one. If you want to fix and flip houses, you have a number of things to learn and obstacles to overcome. Finding deals, finding the money, hiring good contractors, and a few dozen other details you have to handle. Or, you could just buy self-storage facilities.  Self-Storage Investing is one of the youngest – and fastest growing – forms of commercial real estate. From virtual non-existence before 1970, the industry has grown to over 58,000 self-storage facilities in the U.S. today. And it is a strictly American concept, as there are only 12,000 self-storage facilities in the rest of the world combined. With over 2.35 billion square feet of space – a land mass three times the size of Manhattan Island – the self-storage industry is an ever-growing opportunity. Self-storage units involve far less initial capital than many other real estate