Self Storage Income

300. Make More, Do Less: Hiring Your FIRST Self Storage Employee


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Whether you’ve got one self storage facility or twenty, you own a self storage business. And, if you’re like most of us, you want to keep growing. But you can’t be the one changing the locks, picking up the phone calls, answering the emails, and repairing the units while building your portfolio. If you’re doing this, you’re on track to have just another job instead of a fully fledged, profitable business. So, you’re tired of doing all the work. Who do you hire first?

Today, we’re talking about teams. These are the people who will take your storage facility business to the next level. You might have zero employees or just a handyman and virtual assistant. Or, you could have full-time staff on the backend. Wherever you’re at, we’re sharing how you can scale faster, smarter, and WITHOUT making the same mistakes we did so you can work less, make more, and build your business faster.

When we started, we were the ones shoveling the snow, repairing the units, changing locks, and answering calls. This quickly became too time-consuming, so we were forced to hire. Now, with $300M+ in self storage, our business has radically changed, but the steps we took have not. Follow these “levels” of leadership, and you’ll be able to make self storage your full-time business, or at least a more passive income stream that takes care of (much of) itself.

What you’ll learn in today’s show:

  • Who should be your first hire when running a self storage facility 
  • The three “levels” of leadership you’ll go through as your business expands 
  • How to ensure standards don’t start slipping when you leave the day-to-day operations 
  • Start firing yourself! If you’ve got a full-time job, you need to STOP working on your facility 
  • The biggest mistakes AJ made when taking on team members and leading employees 
  • How to STOP working in your business and start working ON your business 
  • Leave a Review for AJ’s New Book: https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Wealth-Self-Storage-2-0-Post-Pandemic/dp/1735258865

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